Echo
A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
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.
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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Echo Quotations
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emile M. Cioran
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Thomas Fuller
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
Henri Bergson
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno
I will offer a choice, not an echo.
Barry Goldwater
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno
The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Translation is at best an echo.
George Borrow
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Richard Wright
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Bobby Vinton
We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
Chico Hamilton
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
Asa Gray
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Michael Lewis
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
Alan Parsons
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
Kool Moe Dee
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Echo Translations
echo in Afrikaans is eggo
echo in Danish is ekko
Echo in Dutch is Echo
echo in German is Echo, Wiederhall, Echo
echo in Hungarian is visszhang
echo in Italian is eco
echo in Latin is refero
echo in Norwegian is ekko
echo in Portuguese is eco
echo in Spanish is eco
echo in Swedish is genljud, eko, eka
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