mirror image
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈmɪrər ˈɪmɪdʒ/
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imagen reflejada
- The couple have a daughter, who is almost the mirror image of Adamma.
- mirror image of their own
So without establishing this association between the face, the mirror image and themselves, they would never learn.
- So without establishing this association between the face, the mirror image and themselves, they would never learn.
- Twin mirror images of dissent jumped out at me.
- So the two are not exactly mirror images.
- OK, well, we also have the mirror image problem over here, OK, OK, so right.
- Then we also have in the material world what we're tempted to call real things as opposed to the mirror images of them.
Examples
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Hannon and Spendius are set up almost as mirror images of each other throughout the novel.
Academic text (1992) -
In other words, the acceptance must be the mirror image of the offer.
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This country is the mirror image of the one I left.
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Our children are in essence mirror images of ourselves...
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Because I feel like I'm looking at a mirror image of my younger self right now.
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My younger brother is the mirror image of my father, and all of them photograph well.
Fiction book (2001) -
On emigration to Africa or the western United States, they were mirror images of each other.
Academic text (2011) -
CNN, for example, did a light feature that was nearly a mirror image of Cerkez-Robinson's article.
Academic text (2006) -
Phrygian and Ionian are the exact mirror images of each other.
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Her hairstyle is a mirror image of the celebrity's, with the left and right sides almost identical.
Synonyms
96
1.9
An image you see in a mirror or on a shiny surface
16
3.7
A person or thing that looks exactly like another one
One of two objects that are mirror images but cannot be placed on top of each other such as molecules
The return of light, sound, or heat from a surface, for example an image in a mirror
How Similar
14
3.3
6
7.8
75
4.7
57
5.6
9
3.5
105
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an image with left and right reversed' is directly and predictably built from 'mirror' (a reflective surface) modifying 'image' (a visual representation), so the compound’s sense follows straightforward compositional logic. This noun+noun modifier pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun mirror image comes from the simple picture of a mirror showing an image with left and right switched. So when we call someone a mirror image of another person, we mean they are almost the same but with details turned the other way, which explains the meaning 'very similar'.