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ECHOES
ECHO
echo
(noun) an imitation or repetition; “the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client’s still life”
echo
(noun) a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.; “his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau”; “Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man”
echo, reverberation, sound reflection, replication
(noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; “she could hear echoes of her own footsteps”
echo
(noun) a reflected television or radio or radar beam
echo
(noun) a reply that repeats what has just been said
Echo
(noun) (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
echoes
plural of echo
Verb
echoes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of echo
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Source: Wiktionary
ECHO
Ech"o, n.; pl. Echoes. Etym: [L. echo, Gr. va to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. Ă©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.)
Definition: 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 Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.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.
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 Macaulay.
Ech"o, v. i.
Definition: To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.
ECHO
Ech"o, n.; pl. Echoes. Etym: [L. echo, Gr. va to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. Ă©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.)
Definition: 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.
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 Macaulay.
Ech"o, v. i.
Definition: To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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