Remembering and Reflection

noun

• The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.
  • usage: "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
  • synonyms: memory

verb

• Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
  • usage: "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number"; "Do you remember that he once loved you"; "call up memories"
  • synonyms: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
• Keep in mind for attention or consideration.
  • usage: "Remember the Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day"; "Think of the starving children in India"
  • synonyms: remember, think of
• Recapture the past; indulge in memories.
  • usage: "he remembered how he used to pick flowers"
  • synonyms: remember, think back
• Show appreciation to.
  • usage: "He remembered her in his will"
  • synonyms: remember
• Mention favorably, as in prayer.
  • usage: "remember me in your prayers"
  • synonyms: remember
• Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship.
  • usage: "Remember me to your wife"
  • synonyms: commend, remember
• Exercise, or have the power of, memory.
  • usage: "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others"
  • synonyms: remember
• Call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony.
  • usage: "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War"
  • synonyms: commemorate, remember

noun

• A calm, lengthy, intent consideration.
  • synonyms: contemplation, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness
• The phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface.
  • synonyms: reflexion
• Expression without words.
  • usage: "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
  • synonyms: expression, manifestation, reflexion
• A likeness in which left and right are reversed.
  • synonyms: mirror image, reflexion
• The image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material. )
  • usage: "he studied his reflection in the mirror"
  • synonyms: reflexion
• Mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed. (
• A remark expressing careful consideration.
  • synonyms: observation, reflexion
• The ability to reflect beams or rays.
  • synonyms: reflexion, reflectivity

• (n.) The act of reflecting or turning or sending back or the state of being reflected.
• (n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
• (n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
• (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
• (n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
• (n.) A part reflected or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
• (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
• (n.) Censure; reproach cast.
• (n.) That which is produced by reflection.
• (n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.