echo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkʹō
rhymes: -ɛkəʊ
ipa: /ˈɛkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɛkoʊ/
homophone: eco (Philippines)
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛkʰ.o/
homophone: eco (spelling pronunciation)
Forms: form: echoes
form: echos
form: echoe
form: eccho
Etymology: From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.
Senses: examples: text: The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: To you I mourn; nor to the Deaf I ſing, / The Woods ſhall anſwer, and their Echo ring.
ref: 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Summer. The Second Pastoral, or Alexis.”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 732:
text: “Then what is your little trouble?” “My little trouble!” I felt that this sort of thing must be stopped at its source. It was only ten minutes to dressing-for-dinner time, and we could go on along these lines for hours. “Listen, old crumpet,” I said patiently. “Make up your mind whether you are my old friend Reginald Herring or an echo in the Swiss mountains. If you're simply going to repeat every word I say –”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
ref: 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:
hypernyms: reverberation
glosses: A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
glosses: An utterance repeating what has just been said.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
examples: text: Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
text: Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Will o' the Mill:
glosses: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 11:
glosses: Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
glosses: An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
examples: text: When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.
ref: 1992, Dial in, page 9:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
glosses: An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of echocardiography.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of echocardiogram.
Derived terms: anechoic
applaud to the echo
cheer to the echo
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echo stop
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echo time
echotomogram
echotomography
echo vowel
forward echo
Hahn echo
hypoecho
hypoechoic
isoecho
light echo
multiecho
photo echo
pre-echo
reecho
re-echo
spin echo
subecho
tape echo
thought echo