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mirrorn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mireor. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French mireor, mireur, mirewer, miror, mirour, mirreur, mirur, mireor, mireoir reflective surface (1119), model, ideal type (c1165; French miroir ), in French also small mirror worn as an ornament (17th cent.) < mirer (see mire v.2) + -oir (see -or suffix 3).The Anglo-Norman and Old French word was formerly taken to be < (unattested) post-classical Latin *miratorium < post-classical Latin mirari , mirare to look at (see mire v.2); compare Old French miredoir (11th cent., Rashi), Old Occitan mirador (c1150), Italian †miradore , †miratore (13th cent.). Some uses may be influenced by classical Latin speculum reflective surface, copy, imitation, image. In sense 3a after post-classical Latin speculum in work titles, e.g. speculum puerorum (mentioned in a manuscript of c1042). Some of these are reflected in English work titles incorporating the word mirror , as the myrrour of the worlde (see quot. 1481), translated from a French translation (image du monde , mid 13th cent.) of the speculum naturale of Vincent de Beauvais (a1264), and the mirour of mans saluacionne (a1500), rendering speculum humanae salvationis . Compare use of Old French mireour in this sense (1266). With sense 6 compare Middle French miroir ardent (1432), post-classical Latin speculum comburens (1267, 1620 in British sources), and burning-glass n. In forms in -oir showing secondary influence of the French etymon. I. A model or example. 1. the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a pattern or model of conduct the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > model, pattern, or example a1300 in C. Brown (1932) 82 (MED) Al day þu mikt understonde ant ti mirour bifor þe sen, wat is to don an to wonden. a1350 Life St. Alexius (Laud) l. 536 in F. J. Furnivall (1878) 73 (MED) Mi mirour is broken & is dede, þat my liking was Inne. c1395 G. Chaucer 1454 Thy wifly chastitee To alle wyues may a mirour bee. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 23867 (MED) We agh to..In eldrin men vr mirur se Quat for to folu, quat for to fle. a1450 (1885) 175 (MED) Men schall me þer myrroure make. 1569 R. Grafton II. 81 Wherefore this Princes actes may be a myrour vnto all Princes. 1683 18 Thou art a Mirror to all Christian Kingdoms. 1765 W. Cowper 24 June (1979) I. 94 A Servant..who is the very Mirrour of Fidelity and Affection for his Master. 1801 J. Strutt Introd. 7 Sir Tristram, a fictitious character held forth as the mirror of chivalry. 1884 May 952/2 Why, he is the very model and mirror of princehood! 1921 L. Strachey iv. 111 In the eyes of Victoria he was the mirror of manly beauty. 1955 R. Lowell Let. 2 Dec. in I. Hamilton (1982) 224 It's a unimpassioned darkish, bricky, Londonlike street, still the mirror of propriety. the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person c1450 ( G. Chaucer 974 She wolde have be..A chef myrour of al the feste. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1957) i. Prol. 8 Maist reuerend Virgill..Lantarn, laid stern, myrrour and A per se. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. 0. 6 They sell the Pasture now, to buy the Horse; Following the Mirror of all Christian Kings. View more context for this quotation 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in (1842) I. 343 Our mirror of ministers of finance did not think this enough for the services of such a friend as Benfield. the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > [noun] > deterring > a deterrent example a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins (1959) 15 Oure kyng..Þe waleis quarters sende to is oune contre, On four half to honge, huere myrour to be, Þer-opon to þenche. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 156 Þow shalt be myroure to manye men to deceyue. c1475 (?c1451) (Royal) (1860) 39 (MED) It..may be a mirroure..to alle cristen princes to mystrust any trewes taking by youre..adversarie. c1550 (1979) xi. 74 The onfaithful cruel act..suld be mirrour and ane exempil til al scotland. 1633 T. Stafford ii. iii. 145 He might for ever bee poynted at as an exemplary mirror for all insolent Traytors. 3. society > communication > representation > [noun] > one who or that which makes representations a1382 (Bodl. 959) Wisd. vii. 26 [Wisdom] is..a merour with oute wem of þe maieste of god. a1400 in (1916) 13 742 (MED) Þis boke is cleped mirrur. c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Prol. 307 What seyth Vincent in his Estoryal Myrour? 1481 W. Caxton tr. (title) Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde. a1500 (Rawl.) (1896) 117 That same boke..was..as merrowre of al his dedys. a1531 T. Moulton (title) This is the myrour or glasse of helthe. 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. (new ed.) vii A Mirour well it might bee calde. 1657 S. Clarke (title) A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners, held forth in some thousands of examples. 1702 I. i. 36 It seem'd the more reasonable to Digress, upon the Nature, and Character, and Fortune of the Duke; as being the best mirroir to discern the..Spirit of that Age. 1751 S. Johnson No. 156. ⁋10 The stage, which pretends only to be the mirrour of life. 1823 (title) The mirror of literature, amusement and instruction. 1874 A. H. Sayce v. 176 Language is the mirror of society, and accordingly will reflect every social change. 1954 I. Murdoch i. 11 The eyes are the mirror of the soul. 1988 R. Christiansen iv. 152 The Poet's mind was no longer a mirror reflecting Nature, but a lamp illuminating it from within. a1450 (1885) 2 (MED) I [sc. God] make þe [sc. Lucifer] als master and merour of my mighte. 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. (new ed.) xvii Those Whom Fortune in this maze of miserie Of wretched chaunce most wofull myrrours chose. 1597 W. Shakespeare ii. ii. 51 But now two mirrours of his Princely semblance, Are crackt in pieces by malignant death. View more context for this quotation c1637 E. Waller 1 Mirrour of Poets, Mirrour of our Age. 1664 K. Philips lxiv. 193 Friends are each others Mirrours, and should be..free from Clouds, Design or Flattery. II. A reflective surface, and related senses. 4. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] c1330 (c1250) (Auch.) (1966) 552 (MED) Þe þridde [maiden] scholde bringge comb and mirour To seruen him. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 26 (MED) To-slyfte A[l þy] myrour þou myȝt fol wel, Bote nauȝt þe ymage schefte. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 76 To luke in a merow [1483 BL Add. 89074 Merowe], mirari. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville (Caxton) (1859) iv. xxvi. 71 In a ful lytel myrroure thou myght see as grete an ymage as in another that is double more. a1500 Gloss. John of Garland in T. Wright (1857) 123 Specula, myrrys. 1590 E. Spenser i. iv. sig. Dv And in her hand she held a mirrhour bright. 1634 T. Herbert 59 Stones..so well polisht, that they equall for brightnesse a steele mirrour. 1690 J. Locke iv. ii. 265 A Face reflected by several Mirrors one to another. 1739 D. Hume II. iii. 272 The breaking of a mirror gives us more concern when at home, than the burning of a house, when abroad. 1766 J. Fordyce II. viii. 88 Next morning the mirror is consulted again. 1847 C. Dickens (1848) xxiii. 225 Mirrors were dim as with the breath of years. 1898 G. B. Shaw Candida in 81 A varnished wooden mantelpiece, with neatly moulded shelves, tiny bits of mirror let into the panels. 1932 W. Faulkner xii. 258 He was facing the shard of mirror nailed to the wall, knotting his tie. 1961 J. Carew 218 He's so doped up he couldn't recognise himself in a mirror. 1989 R. Banks iii. 39 He noticed in the mirror next to him the glare from the high beams of a car coming up behind them fast. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 303 (MED) Þey schulde conceyue lambren liche to þe schadewes þat þey seie of rammes in þe merrour of þe water. 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in iv. sig. G5v And in his waters which your mirror make, Behold your faces. 1637 T. Heywood Dial. in (1874) VI. 258 Their chrystall waves are Myrrhors. 1667 J. Milton iv. 263 A Lake, That to the fringed Bank..Her chrystall mirror holds. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison i. vi So the pure limpid stream..Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines; Till, by degrees, the floating mirror shines. 1866 G. MacDonald xiii The stars above shining as clear below in the mirror of the all but motionless water. 1935 H. G. Wells v. 33 Suddenly the mirror is broken as enormous amphibian tanks crawl up out of the water. 1959 H. Maclennan 372 In the cathedral hush of a Quebec Indian summer with the lake drawing into its mirror the fire of the maples. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer (1987) i. 365 Thus gan he make a mirour of his mynde. 1593 B. Barnes 36 Thine eyes mine heauen..made mine eyes dimme myrrouldes of vnrest. a1633 G. Herbert (1640) sig. B4 The best mirrour is an old friend. 1677 T. Gale iv. 94 The Divine Law is called perfect, as it is an absolute perfect Miroir or Glasse. 1745 E. Haywood II. 122 I shall be very glad to find that, by holding to you this faithful Mirror, you are enabled to wipe off whatever is a Blemish in your Writings. 1785 W. Cowper ii. 291 The fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind. 1850 N. Hawthorne xvii. 231 The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment. 1881 S. R. Gardiner & J. B. Mullinger i. ix. 174 Such books serve to hold up the mirror to the time. 1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell i. ii. 27 Otto held up a mirror to his own soul, affording a clear, unposed reflection of his quiet, unassuming, and baffling integrity. 1949 F. Fergusson i. i. 32 Oedipus Rex is a changing image of human life and action which could have been formed only in the mirror of the tragic theater of the Festival of Dionysos. 1991 Oct. 71/2 Time with other new mothers is a chance to hold up a mirror to your life. 1930 M. Allingham i. 14 They say those tricks are handed down from generation to generation. I think it's all done with mirrors myself. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ x. 128 The drive continued..for a considerable distance, considering the size of the island. Johnson reassured us that it was all done with mirrors. 1981 61 2 Since Lewis Carroll and Alice must have become members of the ‘think-tank’, presumably all is now done with mirrors. 1994 16 Jan. b1 Our weakness was exposed. After that, we tried to do it with mirrors... Denver won. 5. spec.the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > object used in c1330 (Auch.) (1933) 89 Virgil made anoþer ymage, Þat held a mirour in his hond And ouer segȝ al þat lond. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 79 Now ye shal here of the mirrour, the glas that stode theron was of suche vertu, that men myght see therin, all that don within a myle. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen 12 Alsua thay that wsis corsis, christal, murrur, bukis, vordis and..coniuracione to find hwid hurdis in the ȝeird [etc.]. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ I. i. i. 1 With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal..far-reaching visions of the past. a1911 D. G. Phillips (1917) II. xvii. 415 She was seeing the old women of the slums—was seeing them as one sees in the magic mirror the vision of one's future self. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > other 1601 B. Jonson ii. iii. sig. D4 Call for your Casting Bottle, and place your Mirror in your Hat. View more context for this quotation the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > speculum c1395 G. Chaucer 234 Alocen and Vitulon..writen..Of queynte mirours and of perspectyues. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 306 Whanne an holowe merour is y-sette in þe sonne beme and þe light falleþ on al þe merour and reboundeþ in to þe myddel þerof..þat light setteþ þe merour afuyre. 1688 R. Holme iii. xiv. 12/1 A pyrobolick Mirrour is such a Glass that casts forth fire in a moment of tyme by the suns heat. 1728 E. Chambers at Telescope Newton..made a Telescope, consisting of Specula, or Mirrors. 1762 H. Walpole I. vi. 117 Among the stores of old pictures at Somerset-house was one..representing the head of Edward VI. to be discerned only by the reflection of a cylindric mirrour. a1774 A. Tucker (1777) III. iv. 473 A convex mirrour strengthens the colours, and takes off the coarseness of objects by contracting them. 1839 G. Bird 301 The point..being consequently equal to half the radius of the concavity of the mirror. 1893 14 Sept. 7/2 The reflecting lens mirror used in this projector is..60 inches in diameter. 1923 R. Glazebrook IV. 842/1 The method of making a distant object accessible is to replace it by the image of it which a converging lens or mirror forms near its principal focus. 1991 9 Jan. a5/2 A report detailing the errors that led to the installation of a flawed mirror in the Hubble Space Telescope. 7. Any of various objects resembling a mirror in shape, lustre, or reflective quality. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > ornament on moulding 1841 N. Webster Mirror, in architecture, a small oval ornament cut into deep moldings, and separated by wreaths of flowers. 1901 R. Sturgis II. 912 Mirror, a panel surrounded by a moulded or otherwise ornamented frame and suggesting the idea of a mirror. Practically the same as a Cartouche, Rondel or Medallion, but the mirror in this sense is usually a detached panel. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with glossy or shiny surface 1899 14 Jan. 2/4 So glossy is the cloth..that it is now called ‘mirror’, in allusion to the sheen of its highly-polished surface. the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > marking on 1903 Mar. 359/2 The black tips of the long wings waving in the wind, showing the large white ‘mirrors’ on the first three feathers distinctly. 1955 D. A. Bannerman IV. 24 It is possible to distinguish the males on the wing by the white mirrors on the outer primaries. 1983 S. Cramp et al. (1985) III. 780 Small white mirror on outermost primary only visible at close range and from below. 1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies (ed. 9) iii. 328 Stridulation occurs through the file being scraped by the edge of the right tegmen, the mirror acting as a resonator. 1961 P. J. Haskell ii. 34 Another modification for stridulation is found in the appearance of the clear, disc-like area, called by some the ‘mirror’. 1970 52 505 Results..indicated that the area of the right tegmen responsible for the radiation of this sound was the mirror frame, the vein enclosing the classical mirror membrane. 1988 1 174 The mirror consists of a stiff frame surrounding a thin light membrane. 1853 May 210/1 The greatest breadth of the mirror in all the classes and orders. 1859 C. L. Flint 109 Without pretending to be able to judge with any accuracy of the quantity, quality, or the duration, which any particular size or form of the mirror will indicate, they give to Guénon the full credit of his important discovery of the escutcheon, or milk-mirror. 1889 W. P. Hazard 43 A bull with a mirror like Fig. 4, or worse, will stamp his escutcheon on,..and damage his daughters. 1938 D. L. Espe ii. 8 (note) The early views regarding the value of the escutcheon or milk mirror in determining the producing ability of a cow have been largely cast aside. 2004 B. Orland in S. R. Schrepfer & P. Scranton ii. 178 Agricultural literature then, very often reflected popular thought or individual experience; one example is Francois Guenon's ‘milk mirror’ (a pattern of hair growth around the udder). the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) 1986 25 June 1/1 Kevin Ellis has landed the biggest ever carp by an Englishman..a staggering 76lb mirror from France's Lake Cassien. 1994 30 July 2/1 This time it was carp angler Gareth Bowden, of Newport, in Gwent who made the trip up to land a super 35½lb. mirror. Compounds C1. a. (a) General attributive. 1854 4 Mar. 196/1 Improvements in machinery for light saving, such as stuff for mirror backs. 1936 June 297/1 A splendid series of mirror backs includes a superb example of the T-motif pattern. 1993 (BNC) Feb. 19 Most impressive..was the fifth-century bronze mirror back with two rampant lions. 1937 G. Barker 9 The mirror-gazer self-betrayed. 1906 at Mirror Mirror-hall. 1843 C. R. Kennedy 33 Mirror-light Infinite, Earth and heaven disclosing. 1923 E. Blunden 10 From the mirror-lights on the dressing table. 1970 R. Lowell 207 Your wall-mirror in a mat of plateglass sapphire, mirror-scroll and claspleaves, holds our faces. 1817 J. Constable Let. 10 July in (1964) II. 228 I am glad I have not made a purchase of the mirror stand (called a Canterbury). 1960 H. Hayward 187/1 Mirror-stand, an adjustable mirror mounted on a shaft and tripod base, resembling a pole-screen; popular at the end of the 18th cent. 1867 Feb. 136/1 It was not the mirror trick, of course. 1940 W. Faulkner iv. i. 247 Something to be repudiated with contempt, like a mirror trick. (b) Objective and instrumental. 1885 W. Pater i. vi Placed in their rear were the mirror-bearers of the goddess. 1829 R. Christison (1832) xiii. 375 A somewhat later account of the disease by Dr. Bateman, as he observed it in mirror-silverers. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. II. 931 In mirror-silvering it [sc. mercury] was also employed. (c) 1902 M. M. Metcalf in 13 June 938/1 The mirror-backed globes are much preferable to those with painted backs. 1994 June 30/1 A wall bracket supporting candle branches, mirror-backed to enhance the effect of the candlelight. 1873 Dec. 470 ‘An excellent view,’ observes the mirror-topped gentleman. 1938 Jan. 74/2 As you enter the room now you see first the blue patterned wing chairs flanking the mirror-topped mantel. 1950 M. Allingham xiii. 270 He remembered Geoffrey's face at the other end of the mirror-topped table. b. (a) Similative. (i) 1879 Jan. 422/1 Seven hundred cattle ‘with rural pictures in their great mirror-eyes’, waited patiently outside for their executioner. 1923 D. H. Lawrence (N.Y. ed.) 89 The red-gold mirror-eye [of a fish] stares and dies. 1951 A. Koestler ii. viii. 306 She felt herself reflected in their watchful mirror-eyes, and was forced to see herself as they saw her. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury 47 Besides the difficulty of the Manner it self, and that Mirrour-Faculty,..it proves also..a kind of Mirrour..to the Age. the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light > mirror finish 1897 No. 104. 112/3 Heavy nickel plated and polished to a mirror finish. 1926–7 199/3 Polishing wool..gives to silver, electro-plate, gold, etc., that beautiful ‘mirror’ finish of newly manufactured articles. 1994 R. Silverberg 286 Fine clothes, pearl-gray suit and orange foulard, boots polished to a mirror finish. a1849 J. C. Mangan (1859) 73 On the mirror-floor of Ocean's wave. 1972 L. A. Murray 68 Scattered..Over that blood-and-dung mirror-floor,..men and bulls. 1850 H. F. Gould 164 Mark the goodly Orange-tree! Rich its leaves of evergreen Polished to a mirror sheen! 1960 S. Plath 22 River lapsing Black beneath bland mirror-sheen. 1825 E. Bailey 6 Ye, in its [sc. the ocean's] mirror surface, may See that ye are but men. 1874 F. W. Farrar (ed. 2) I. xvi. 227 The mirror surface of their lake. 1962 7 Sept. 321/3 (heading) Mirror surface on copper plating. (ii) 1853 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer I. 385 The oars kept time on the mirror-bright waters. 1900 7 Aug. 3/5 There is an amount of steel and brass work to be kept mirror-bright. 1987 W. Styron in Aug. 87/1 Miss Slocum, who was a buxom woman of about thirty with an open, dimpled, heartlike face scrubbed mirror-bright. a1955 W. Stevens (1957) 51 Your gowns..came shining as things come That enter day from night, came mirror-dark. 1923 D. H. Lawrence (London ed.) 89 His red-gold, water-precious, mirror-flat bright eye. 1936 J. Steinbeck iv. 29 One line of worn and mirror-polished rails extended ahead. 1996 W. Gibson ix. 72 Blackwell produced..a mirror-polished rectangle with a round hole through its uppermost, leading corner. 1927 W. B. Yeats 9 All those things whereof Man makes a superhuman Mirror-resembling dream. 1934 W. B. Yeats 40 The mirror scalèd serpent is multiplicity. (b) Designating textiles having a lustrous or glossy surface. 1894 20 Sept. 3/3 Another splendid gown..was of ‘mirror moiré’. 1893 27 Nov. 6/1 Vivid tones of pink and red are seen in mirror velvets. 1906 5 Apr. 8/1 A pointed tunic of peplum shape in soft white chiffon hemmed with..mirror velvet. (c) Designating colours with a high lustre (chiefly used as adjectives). 1885 Apr. 680/1 Even in black and white there are splendid tones,..mirror black, ivory white [etc.]. 1972 137 ‘Mirror black’ glazed vase... K'ang-hsi period, 1662–1722. 1887 19 May 5/6 A mirror-grey satin dress. 1906 at Mirror Mirror-pink. a1877 E. H. Knight I. 234/1 Brooke's Self-Registering Barometer. Upon the column of mercury is a float carrying a mirror, on which a pencil of light is thrown.] a1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. 612/1 Mirror barometer. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. II. M[irror]-thermometer. C2. 1888 May 846/1 This little chapel contains..garden mirror balls of various colors, all hanging from the ceiling. 1978 17 Feb. 1/4 Complete the Blahs Ball with a dazzling, revolving mirror ball—only $10. 1994 Oct. 20/3 Best scene is a disco punch-up, where Blaze battles for her life against some lycra warriors while the mirrorball and strobes flash to some of the most wretched music ever written. the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) 1879 S. F. Baird in (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. *43 On the 26th of May Mr. Hessel placed there 227 naked and mirror carp. 1911 V. 382/2 Some most aberrant varieties have been fixed by artificial selection, the principal being the king-carp or mirror-carp. 1992 Mar. 132/1 The mirror carp ancestry should give us a fish with an even row of bright blue scales either side of the dorsal fin. 1922 5 95 During April the trawler ‘Nora Noven’ secured small numbers of mirror dory in about 40 fathoms in Cook Strait. 1982 T. Ayling (1984) 181 Mirror dories are a uniform silver in colour, so bright as to be almost mirror-like. society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > scanning devices 1927 20 Apr. 480/2 As the mirror drum revolves, these seven beams trace seven lines at once on the screen, and then pass over another adjacent track of seven lines until the entire screen has been covered. 1935 M. G. Scroggie iii. 22 The scanner which has been used for the last few years to transmit the B.B.C. programmes by the Baird low-definition system, and also in a large proportion of the receivers, is the mirror drum. 1991 (Internat. Soc. Optical Engin.) 1358 1134 Two different high speed ciné cameras were used for this work, a Hadland ‘Imacon’ 792 electronic image converter camera and a Cordin 377 rotating mirror-drum optical camera. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > appliquéwork > specific 1967 E. Short i. 17 (caption) Indian ‘Shisha’ or mirror embroidery. society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adverb] > mirror-writing 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. VIII. 25 A young lady..who wrote more fluently ‘mirror’ fashion with the left hand. society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > type of 1931 D. F. Tovey 61 The original edition [of Bach's ‘Art of Fugue’]..should not have printed the mirror-fugues in succession instead of in mirror-reflection. 1962 27 Dec. 1109/2 The fifth fugue is again for strings only, as are the rectus versions of the ‘mirror’ fugues XII and XIII [of Bach]. 1973 23 Apr. 16/2 A concert-goer who can recognize a mirror-fugue merely by listening to it has no need of assistance. 1872 Sept. 634/2 By the mirror galvanometer of Sir William Thomson..a ray of light is reflected from a minute mirror that is attached to a magnetic needle. 1953 12 214 Frequency responses of a few hundred cycles per second may be obtained in conjunction with mirror galvanometers. 1992–3 Winter 26 Upon seeing the first flickers on the mirror galvanometer he did not respond, but in great excitement rushed in to arouse his sleeping colleagues with the breathless words ‘the cable, the cable’. 1839 Dec. 795/1 The mirror globe..depended from the beam which divided the comfortable low ceiling into two unequal parts. 1850 20 Oct. 45/3 The chef d'œuvres in this manufacture are mirror globes, of plain silvered surface. 1965 G. Melly iv. 37 The groups played on alternate sides of the..bandstand under the revolving multi-faceted mirror-globes. 1994 15 Nov. b2/2 He installed $60,000 worth of strobe and robotic lights, four big mirror globes and color-mixing equipment. 1961 A. L. M. Sowerby (ed. 19) 458 In a mirror lens the image is formed by reflection from the surfaces of concave and convex mirrors instead of by refraction through convex and concave lenses... Several makers have adopted this construction for miniature camera lenses of focal length 500mm. or more. 1977 J. Hedgecoe 122 At first sight the image given by a mirror lens appears identical to that of a telephoto lens of the same focal length. 1991 June 14/1 It was not until..a friend loaned me a 500mm mirror lens, that the move from watching to photographing began. 1968 9/1 To be used with mirror locked up and accessory finder in accessory shoe.] 1974 L. Stroebel & H. N. Todd 123/2 Mirror lockup. On single-lens reflex camera, a device that holds the reflector in the ‘up’ position to prevent it from coming into contact with the back of a lens. 1990 22 Sept. 45/2 The vibration of the mirror can be eliminated by using the mirror lock-up after you have composed and focused the picture. the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear fusion > [noun] > fusion reactor > forming possible basis of 1954 R. F. Post (Univ. Calif. Radiation Laboratory, UCRL-4231, 2 Feb.) p. vi A general principle involved in the mirror machine's conception was the establishing as an initial condition that the plasma should be created by injection and trapping of a space-charge neutralized energetic ion beam into an otherwise evacuated chamber. 1958 6 Sept. 266/3 In the mirror machines the molecules of heavy hydrogen are violently injected into a chamber and go spiralling along until magnetic forces at the ends of the chamber reflect them. 1993 (Abstr.) 184/2 Electron cyclotron wave scattering by the electrostatic ion wave excited by a Langmuir probe disc along the magnetic field line in a mirror machine. the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactive isotope > radioactive nuclide > [noun] > mirroring another 1947 H. A. Bethe ii. 7 If the binding energies of a pair of nuclei which differ only in the interchange of neutrons and protons are compared, a difference in binding energy which increases with the charge of the nuclei is found. Examples of such ‘mirror’ nuclei are: 1H32He3; 3Li74Be7;..14Si2915P29. 1962 H. D. Bush vi. 127 Evidence for the equality of n–n and p–p forces is provided by certain positron emitters where the parent and product of the decay are mirror nuclei. 1995 B. 345 349/1 B(GT) values for β− and β+ decays of mirror nuclei in the same isospin multiplet are identical. the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactive isotope > radioactive nuclide > [noun] > mirroring another 1955 F. K. Richtmyer & E. K. Kennard (ed. 5) x. 510 Among the many unstable nuclides..a set of particular importance are the so-called ‘mirror nuclides’. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > glass-painting > methods of glass-painting society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > glass-painting > work 1886 H. M. E. Sharp-Ayres (title) Mirror painting in the Italian style. 1960 H. Hayward 187/1 Mirror-painting, a type of glass picture in which the glass was first coated at the back with an amalgam of tin and mercury to make it into a mirror. The parts to be painted were then scraped away and painted in as required. 1970 G. Savage 275/1 Most surviving mirror-paintings are Chinese and belong to the 18th century... Mirror-painting, being on the back of a sheet of glass, meant working in reverse. 1979 21 Sept. 116/2 Also to be noted are 25 Chinese mirror paintings from the turn of the 19th century. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > period or stage of life > specific 1968 A. Wilden tr. J. Lacan (1974) 160 The ‘mirror phase’ derives its name from the importance of mirror relationships in childhood. The significance of children's attempts to appropriate or control their own image in a mirror..is that their actions are symptomatic of these deeper relationships. society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation > as in a mirror society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > glass-painting > work 1890 W. Carleton 44 Our deeds—our thoughts—our feelings—all are cast In mirror-pictures, that shall never fade. 1939 May p. xv/1 A pair of decorative Chinese mirror-pictures in Chippendale frames. 1959 E. Pulgram v. 46 Oscillograms of repetitive waves whose half-cycles are not mirror pictures of one another. 1964 Jan. 72/1 Mirror pictures..this kind of repeated or reflected picture of a picture of a picture, ad infinitum. society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strip or plate of wood or metal 1809 J. Grahame (1812) 19 Wait patient till another starry night Has, in that frozen mirror-plate, beheld Another galaxy inverted shine. 1839 A. Ure 572 The casting of mirror-plates was commenced in France about the year 1688. 1940 550/1 Mirror plate,..(1) Plate glass for silvering.—(2). A fixing device in the form of a small metal plate, one end being screwed..to the object..and the other fixed to the base. 1990 Apr. 27/3 Use heavy duty brass mirror plates screwed into the top of the backboards and then screw these to the wall. the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia maculata (homelyn) 1863 J. Couch I. 104 Those staring marks, from which this fish has sometimes been called the Mirror Ray. 1888 XXIV. 436/2 The principle gives an instantaneous solution of the question of the ultimate optical efficiency in the method of ‘mirror-reading’, as commonly practised in various physical observations. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others 1858 E. C. Gaskell in 3 July 53/1 One of the great drawing-rooms was called the ‘Mirror Room’, because it was lined with glass which my lady's great grandfather had brought from Venice. 1926 A. Huxley i. 70 These mirror rooms at Amber. the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > graduated instruments > graduated scale > other scales 1889 Apr. 95/3 A system of right and left hand deflections of the mirror scale, of greater or less amplitude, constituted the alphabet. 1901 M. W. Travers vi. 56 The mirror scale (Jolly).—In reading barometers, manometers, etc., it is usual to employ a glass scale ruled in millimetres. The scale is etched on the surface of a strip of glass about 5 mm. in thickness, which is then silvered on the second surface. 1976 15 54 To preserve the best accuracy and discrimination a meter with a scale length similar to the earlier TF 2600 was chosen with a mirror scale to avoid parallax errors. society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > mirror-writing 1890 W. James I. x. 399 The subjects, e.g., often write backwards, or they transpose letters, or they write mirror-script. 1982 30 June c7/3 He's the elder cool guy on the deck force, like Fonzie with a Newport, R.I., accent and a pair of mirror shades. 1994 Sept. 148/2 The preferred choice of folks on both sides of the law, sunglasses would seem to imbue a level of power and intimidation in the wearer—mirror shades especially. 1979 4 183/1 (caption) The Cr3+ concentration given includes all Cr3+ ions, only ∼53% of which fall on laser-active mirror sites. 1984 56 1314/1 In alexandrite..two different symmetry sites are available for Cr3+ substitution, a mirror site and an inversion site. 1993 (Nexis) Feb. 109 The concept of ftp mirror sites and the vast number of people now able to access them has reduced the importance of having the software posted to a main stream usenet Network News group. 1994 (Electronic ed.) 21 Mar. The archive was restored..from mirror sites on the Internet. 1999 10 Nov. i. 3/7 See if there are ‘mirror sites’—copies—of the one you want. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > period or stage of life > specific 1937 18 78 Report of the Fourteenth International Psycho-analytical Congress... Second Scientific Session 2. Dr. J. Lacan (Paris). The Looking-Glass Phase.] 1949 30 203/1 The theory of the ‘mirror-stage’ has already been presented to the International Congress of 1936, but has remained unpublished in its report. 1992 28 Feb. 26/2 According to Lacan, the earliest game is that of identification with a mirror-image of the body, in what he calls the ‘mirror stage’. the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > mica > muscovite 1668 W. Charleton 255 Selenitis,..Lapis Specularis.. Mirrour-stone, or Muscovy Glass. 1970 740 (caption) Mirror tiles. 1991 Aug. 44/4 Mirror tiles, cloths and paper are just a few backgrounds that could be used. 1924 A. E. Taylor in 33 85 Similarly with mirror-vision, except that the event that gives rise to the false location in this case is extra-organic. What I ‘see in the glass’ is not an image of my face, but my actual face itself in a wrong location. 1965 G. McInnes vi. 94 At this time I was suffering from incipient mirror vision and had a tendency to try to write with my left hand. 1977 (Nexis) Jan. 94 Thirteen years later it is clear that G.E.'s seers—and the many industry analysts who agreed with them—were afflicted with mirror vision. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > wall or chimney mirror 1881 Dec. 29/2 The white marble, the gleaming pillars, the gay colors and sparklings given back by the mirror walls, compose a scene of magical beauty. 1964 20 Aug. 264/2 A prism, or perhaps tent-shaped room, some eighty feet high, whose two inclined faces are all mirror; hidden in the ridge are two film cameras... So that film image as well as the constantly moving crowd are repeated ad infinitum in the mirror-wall, as if it were the inside of a kaleidoscope. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > appliquéwork > specific 1969 1 July 9/2 Mirror-work is a traditional Indian craft which looks enchanting..densely applied to a gipsy-type waistcoat or belt. 1988 A. Ghosh (1989) 22 There were also a few cushions, with bright Gujarati mirrorwork covers, scattered on the floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mirrorv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mirror n. †1. ?1410 T. Hoccleve Ballad to Somer l. 64 in (1970) i. 66 Ensaumpleth vs let seen & vs miroure. the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > conform or model on 1593 T. Nashe 36 Vengeance on your soules..for thus mirrouring mee for the Monarch-monster of Mothers. 2. the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > an image the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in 30 He..bending to her open eyes, Where he was mirror'd small in paradise. 1823 F. Clissold 23 The glassy pinnacles of the surrounding Alps mirrored the varying lights of the hemisphere. 1896 A. E. Housman xv. 23 Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see. 1929 R. Hughes iii. 66 At sea nothing can protect you from that second sun which is mirrored up from the water. 1954 W. Golding ix. 189 The clear water mirrored the clear sky and the angular bright constellations. 1983 A. Tyler iv. 36 He had on sunglasses made of a silvery black that mirrored Evie perfectly. the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (intransitive)] > be reflected (as an image) 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. iv. 73 The Moon..with an equal and unfavouring loveliness, mirrors herself on every wave. 1855 E. C. Gaskell II. x. 116 How could he have lulled himself into the unsuspicious calm in which her tearful image had mirrored itself not two hours before. 1883 R. L. Stevenson in 6 273/2 The sandy peninsula of San Francisco, mirroring itself on one side in the bay. 1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante II. ix. 57 White marble so polished and smooth that I mirrored myself in it. 3. figurative. society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > as in a mirror 1827 B. Disraeli III. v. i. 18 Those glorious hours, when the unruffled river of his Life mirrored the cloudless heaven of his Hope. 1883 S. C. Hall II. 41 The brightness of the outer world is mirrored in imperishable verse. 1891 O. Wilde i. 2 The painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald vii. 155 Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. 1961 K. Tynan i. 175 Idealism is mirrored in Don Quixote, emblem of the pure romantic quest. 1990 May 34/2 The program is easy to master, with a wide range of keyboard options mirroring a full complement of pull-down menus. 1992 4 Jan. 54/3 McKinsey reckons a shortage of hard currency..means that the east German car boom is unlikely to be mirrored anywhere else in Eastern Europe. 1956 43 242 The therapeutic technique of..actively mirroring the pathological introject is manipulative, insofar as it may precipitate a great deal of movement in the treatment situation. 1970 32 113 By mirroring the movement of the speaker, the person directly addressed..heightens the bond that is being established between him and the speaker. 1979 42 66/2 People in a group often mirror one another's posture and..those who share a posture usually share a viewpoint as well. 1997 C. Brookmyre (2001) v. 111 They were mirroring each other now, one elbow on the table, hand supporting jaw, temple resting against the wall. 1986 K. Ohmori et al. in 21 1863/1 The redundant system features data integrity by mirrored disk.] 1993 May 120/1 The data is striped to multiple controllers and then mirrored at each controller. 1995 14 Dec. 28/5 We thought we didn't need to mirror all our discs, and we were wrong. 1997–8 Winter 33/2 Installing a second hard disk..makes it easy to ‘mirror’ the contents of your main hard disk. 1999 16 May 13 The message..had been ‘mirrored’—copied onto other web sites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1300 v.?1410 |
