Word Finder - echo

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A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

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An utterance repeating what has just been said.

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A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.

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Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

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The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

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The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

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(whist) 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.

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(whist) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.

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(of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return.

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To reflect back (a sound).

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(by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

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Sid echoed his father's point of view.

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To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.

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(whist) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

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The visual image formed by an echocardiograph.

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The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart.

The only response was the echo of an unanswered ring.

He listened, but heard only the echo of his call.

Nothing to echo off of, she supposed.

The echo of little voices inspired several snickers from around them.

His groan brought an echo from the depths of her soul and she pressed closer.

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it.

Echo is a familiar example of this.

But how late an echo it would be hazardous to decide.

Her works are in very deed the echo of our times.

Moved by Peter of Lusignan, king of Cyprus, and by the celebrated Carmelite Peter Thomas, who ha .d come to Avignon in February 1363, the pope proclaimed another crusade, which found some echo in France and resulted in the temporary occupation of Alexandria (1365).

The above is unmistakably the voice of those early Christians who hated Paul, or at all events an echo of that voice.

This feeble echo of the full response to stimulus is an idea, which is thus only another word for imperfect organization or adjustment.

On the west side of the Bard is the Orkney Man's Cave - a great cavern with fine stalactites and a remarkable echo.

Hence the octave, though comparatively feeble in the incident train, may predominate in the scattered reflection constituting the echo.

The Decembrist movement in Russia had little or no echo in Poland.

A sect of Sabbataeans - the Dormeh of Salonica - survived him, and for many a long year the controversy for and against his claims left an echo in Jewish life.

Even " Thy will be done " preserves the echo of a direction, and, needless to say, this is hardly a form of primitive address.

The choir stalls in the body of the church are modern, as is the organ, a fine instrument with an "echo" attachment, electrically connected, in the triforium of the south transept.

The echo is then broken up into small waves, none of which may be sufficiently distinct to interfere with the direct voice.

Sometimes a sounding-board over the head of a speaker improves the hearing probably by preventing echo from a smooth wall behind him.

He engaged in a foolish and undignified struggle with Crebillon (not fils), a rival set up against him by Madame de Pompadour, but a dramatist who, in part of one play, Rhadamiste et Zenobie, has struck a note of tragedy in the grand Cornelian strain, which Voltaire could never hope to echo.

It is clear from the traditions about Lycurgus, for example, that even the Spartans had been a long while in Laconia before their state was rescued from disorder by his reforms; and if there be truth in the legend that the new institutions were borrowed from Crete, we perhaps have here too a late echo of the legislative fame of the land of Minos.

Throughout this mystic religious world it was above all the influence of the late Greek religion, derived from Plato, that also continued to operate; it is filled with the echo of the song, the first note of which was sounded by the Platonists, about the heavenly home of the soul and the homeward journey of the wise to the higher world of light.

These stirring pieces, termed by him Messeniennes, sounded a keynote which found an echo in the hearts of all.

Demands tending towards the Magyarization of the joint army had been advanced and had found such an echo in Magyar public opinion that Count Andrassy was obliged solemnly to warn the country of the dangers of nationalist Chauvinism and to remind it of its obligations under the Compact of 1867.

The arched passage-way is very symmetrical, varying in height from 19 to 35 ft., and famous for its musical reverberations - not a distinct echo, but an harmonious prolongation of sound for from 10 to 30 seconds after the original tone is produced.

The epic achievements of the Portuguese in that century, the discoveries and the wars in Africa, hardly find an echo, even in the verses of those who had taken part in them.

It is not indeed possible to deny that in the Oracle of the Bottle, besides its merely jocular and fantastic sense, there is a certain "echo," as it has been called, "of the conclusion of the preacher," a certain acknowledgment of the vanity of things.

When a room has bad acoustic quality we can almost always assign the fault to Large smooth surfaces on the walls, floor or ceiling, which reflect or echo the voice of the speaker so that the direct waves sent out by him at any instant are received by a hearer with the waves sent out previously and reflected at these smooth surfaces.

His rejection of the love of the nymph Echo drew upon him the vengeance of the gods.

A long-drawn echo from all classes hailed a revolution that was possible because it was necessary.

As though shattered by a reverberant echo from the cannon of the Trebbia, the Directory crumbled to pieces, succumbing on the 18th of June 1799 beneath the reprobation showered on Treilhard, Merlin de Douai, and La Rvellire-Lpeaux.

Remember your Digital Echo file, that record of everything you do and say?

Then imagine if you shared your Digital Echo with a billion other people on the planet.

It seemed to come from behind them but it could have been anything—a dislodged rock, an echo of their own movements.

But in Germany there was no echo of this brighter note.

Fuzuli showed far more originality than any of his predecessors; for, although his work is naturally Persian in form and in general character, it is far from being a mere echo from Shiraz or Isfahan.

The Porch of Echo, also called the " Painted Porch," extended to a length of 100 yds.

Though reform originated among the educated classes it speedily found an echo among the industrial classes of the 16th century, further assisted by the influence of German and Flemish journeymen.

His fate is an echo of that of Samassum-yukin, the brother of Assur-bani-pal (q.v.).

The French revolution of 1830 had its echo in Italy, and Carbonarism raised its head in Parma, Modena and Romagna the following year.

In Newton Upper Falls, Echo Bridge (of the Boston Aqueduct) crosses the Charles near the falls in Hemlock Gorge Reservation of the Metropolitan Park system.

At its greatest elevation it is comparatively level, and contains many extensive freshwater basins, such as Lake Augusta, Lake St Clair, Lake Sorell, Lake Echo, Lake Crescent, Arthur's Lake and the Great Lake.

The ringing echo of his voice faded, leaving only the constant sound of dripping water as they moved deeper into the mine.

His comments echo an increasingly common refrain ringing out across the globe.

Clicking noises, echo, very ambient, switching back to a main melodic thread.

This is surely an echo of old style class antagonism.

He sees cardiology at the end of the month, and we will schedule an echo for the spring.

Why can't I hear the crackle of the flames all around me, or the echo of the footsteps around the walls?

Echo The World (We Live In) has a ramshackle charm, off-kilter melodies and delightfully crisp vocals abound.