(v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
(v.) To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
(v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
(v. i.) To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.
(v. i.) To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.
(v. i.) To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(4) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(5) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(6) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(7) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(8) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(9) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(10) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(11) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(12) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
(13) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(14) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(15) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(16) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(17) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
(18) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
(19) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(20) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
Reverberate
Definition:
(a.) Reverberant.
(a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected.
(v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
(v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
(v. t.) Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
(v. i.) To resound; to echo.
(v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(2) In addition, several cells showed unusual firing patterns, such as delayed responses and reverberating afterdischarges.
(3) The proposed physical process by which the metaorganization principle is implemented is based on oscillatory reverberation.
(4) The fact, that following the cooling or ablation of the auditory cortex the rhythmic afterdischarge to sound clicks as well as spontaneous spindle bursts keep arising in the medial geniculate body without changing their patterns, militates also against the possibility of thalamocortical reverberation.
(5) In situations with reverberation and less background noise the difference is less marked.
(6) For the reverberant condition, the sentences were played through a room with a reverberation time of 1.2 s. The CVC syllables were removed from the sentences and presented in pairs to ten subjects with audiometrically normal hearing, who judged the similarity of the syllable pairs separately for the nonreverberant and reverberant conditions.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) There are reverberating circuits between the fundus caudati and the medial groups of the nigra characterized by their small cells, between the putamen and the postero-lateral cell groups of the nigra, between the caudatum and the rostral cell groups of the nigra, presumably with the specialization that the lateral caudatum is in two-way connection with the rostro-lateral cell groups of the nigra as is the medial caudatum with the rostro-medial cell group.
(9) Speech recognition was assessed under three levels of room reverberation, each in quiet and noise, for subjects with varying amounts of sensorineural hearing impairment.
(10) Fears the closing of Toyota and Holden plans could trigger recessions in Victoria and South Australia have reverberated through the states as the two car manufacturers announced they will be pulling out in 2017.
(11) A constant shadow with closely spaced high level reverberation echoes is strongly suggestive of a metallic foreign body.
(12) Analyzing these characteristics as well as the positional relationships of reverberation artifacts in the porta hepatis and gallbladder fossa should enable one to suspect the post-cholecystectomy state and differentiate from an abnormal gas collection.
(13) It is proposed that rehabilitative audiological assessments include evaluation of an individual's ability to cope with reverberation and noise.
(14) The stimuli were degraded by reverberation or speech-spectrum noise.
(15) It also changed life in Manus entirely, reverberating through culture, imagination, infrastructure and economy.
(16) These simulated a quiet living room, a classroom, and social events in two settings with different reverberation characteristics.
(17) Our letter, organised by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality , also refers to a disturbing historical echo still reverberating today.
(18) Now that America and China are so intertwined as to be essentially one country – a fact you can’t forget here in San Francisco, where everyone is coding apps for phones made in Shenzhen – Ai’s mashup of the two nations’ oppressed minorities reverberates as a call for reckoning beyond national borders.
(19) It was one of those panicky quick decisions that has long-term reverberations that aren’t necessarily what you want.” Darling and Alexander were adamant that, for all their fears, they made the right decision on the currency.
(20) On the whole, talkers maintained their relative intelligibility across the four environments, although there was one exception which suggested that some voices may be particularly susceptible to degradation due to reverberation.