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Echo - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Echo : (noun)
1: the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
[syn: reverberation, sound reflection, replication]
2: (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and
pined away until only her voice remained [syn: Echo]
3: a reply that repeats what has just been said
(verb)
1: to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of
their leaders" [syn: repeat]
2: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
[syn: resound, ring, reverberate]
3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: recall]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Echo : \Ech"o\, n.; pl. Echoes. [L. echo, Gr. ? echo.] (Whist)
(a) 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 signaled for trumps.
(b) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a
high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Echo : \Ech"o\, n.; pl. Echoes. [L. echo, Gr. ? echo, sound,
akin to ?, ?, sound, noise; cf. Skr. v[=a]? to sound, bellow;
perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. ['e]cho.]
1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to
the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition
of a sound.
The babbling echo mocks the hounds. --Shak.
The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. --Pope.
2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
--Fuller.
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his
heart. --R. L.
Stevenson.
3.
(a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as
repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell. --Milton.
(b) (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth,
who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing
was left of her but her voice.
Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give
me answer from her mossy couch. --Milton.
Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so
as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally
superseded by the swell.
Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for
producing the soft effect of distant sound.
To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous
applause. --M. Arnold.
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should
applaud again. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Echo : \Ech"o\, v. i.
To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall
echoed with acclamations. ``Echoing noise.'' --Blackmore.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Echo : \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to
reverberate.
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
--Dryden.
The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. --Keble.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
they ?nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper
anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Echo : European Community Host Organisation (org., Europe)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Echo, MN (city, FIPS 17900)
Location: 44.62275 N, 95.41126 W
Population (1990): 304 (145 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56237
Echo, OR (city, FIPS 22200)
Location: 45.74395 N, 119.19203 W
Population (1990): 499 (215 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97826
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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Example Usage of Echo |
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SketchyFletchy: @Shavenewok See, I think of it as something more like a sigh of hopeless, grim resignation with a faint Echo of facepalm in the background. |
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karenmister: @_tataaa irmão do mitchel e do mason, ele é o marc, ele é meu e da Echo xD |
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