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echo
UK /ˈɛkəʊ/ US /ˈɛkoʊ/
noun 5verb 5name 5
Definitions
noun
1
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
To you I mourn; nor to the Deaf I ſing, / The Woods ſhall anſwer, and their Echo ring.
2
An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3
A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
4
Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
5
Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
The frustration with the political process that in the '60s led to the formation of resistance groups finds an echo in today's increasingly confrontational tactics.
verb
1
Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.
2
Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
3
To reflect back (a sound).
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
4
To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
‘I want nothing.’ ‘Nor I,’ echoed Sydney.
5
To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
name
1
An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
2
A number of places in the United States:
3
A number of places in the United States:
4
A number of places in the United States:
5
A number of places in the United States:
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