mirror

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ bathroom, bedroom

▪ compact, dresser (AmE), make-up, pocket, shaving

▪ hand (BrE), hand-held (AmE)

▪ full-length, tall

▪ framed, ornate

▪ antique

▪ two-way

▪

He watched them through a two-way mirror.

▪ concave, convex

▪ oval, round

▪ rear, rear-view, side-view (AmE), wing (BrE)

▪

Always check your mirror before pulling out to overtake.

▪ funhouse (AmE)

▪ broken, cracked

VERB + MIRROR

▪ use

▪ glance in, look in, look into

▪ admire yourself in, examine yourself in, look at yourself/your face in

▪

He was busy admiring himself in the mirror.

▪ face, sit at, stand in front of

▪ check

▪ catch sight of sb/sth in, see sb/sth in

▪ hang

▪

We hung a mirror over the fireplace.

▪ break, crack, smash

MIRROR + VERB

▪ reflect sth, reveal sth, show sth

▪ hang

▪

a large mirror hanging on the wall behind him

MIRROR + NOUN

▪ image, reflection (esp. AmE)

▪

Art can be seen as a mirror image of society.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the mirror

▪

She stared at her face in the mirror.

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verb

ADVERB

▪ closely

▪

The trends here closely mirror those in America.

▪ exactly, faithfully, perfectly

▪ almost

VERB + MIRROR

▪ seem to

PHRASES

▪ be mirrored by sth, be mirrored in sth

▪

The jump in business confidence has been mirrored by the increase in employment.

▪ be mirrored in sb's face, be mirrored on sb's face

▪

The shock was mirrored on her face.

Mirror is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑eye