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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 {Echo organ} (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Echo \Ech"o\, v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back as the hall echoed with acclamations. ``Echoing noise.'' --Blackmore. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: echo n 1: the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped [syn: {reverberation}, {sound reflection}] 2: a reply that repeats what has just been said v 1: to say again or imitate: "followers echoing the cries of their leaders." [syn: {repeat}] 2: ring or echo with sound; reverberate; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: {resound}, {ring}, {reverberate}] 3: call to mind: "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: {recall}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: 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 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: echo [FidoNet] n. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s echomail system. Compare {newsgroup}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: echo 1. A {topic group} on {FidoNet}'s {echomail} system. Compare {newsgroup}. 2. A {Unix} command that just prints its arguments. [{Jargon File}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: ECHO European Community Host Organisation (org., Europe)
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