echo
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Is echo a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.countableuncountable
2. (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.Examples: "Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them."; "Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart."countablefigurativelyuncountable
3. (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.Examples: "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."countablefigurativelyuncountable
4. (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.countablefigurativelyuncountable
5. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.countableuncountable
6. (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.Examples: "With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific."Synonyms: ringintransitive
2. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.Examples: "The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene."figurativelyintransitive
3. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).Examples: "Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng."; "The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever."transitive
4. (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).Examples: "Sid echoed his father’s point of view."; "‘I want nothing.’ ‘Nor I,’ echoed Sydney."; "Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes."figurativelytransitive
5. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.Examples: "The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing."transitive
6. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.intransitive
name (English)
1. (Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.Greek
2. (astronomy) 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
Definition source: Wiktionary