ECHO


Meaning of ECHO in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

sentiment

Forgive me if I share them with you, in the hope that they may echo your own sentiments .

He was echoing the sentiments of almost every one of his coworkers.

Furthermore, what the men express echoes the sentiments of soldiers in wars throughout history.

Ann Lewis, spokesperson for the Clinton reelection campaign echoes that sentiment for the Democratic side.

sound

The preference was for something resembling either a low-pitched voice or the sound of a voice echoing inside a cavern.

They hurt, the sound of the blows echoing off my body.

Sitting there he would often hear strange sounds echoing around him; the shifting of books or the faint creaking of shelves.

It was quiet, too, every sound echoing around the cavernous dome.

The truck climbed steeply, the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest.

Carrefour started, looking round from the door, the sound echoing in his mind.

The good doctor threw back his head and laughed merrily, the sound echoing strangely in that dark, forbidding hall.

The smell of chlorine engulfed her and some one suddenly blew a whistle, the sound echoing in the large enclosed area.

theme

More primary-care physicians are the remedy, said Mrs Clinton, echoing a popular theme in health-care deliberations.

Their story echoes the central themes in Part 1 of this book:-Principles.

view

Fry, perhaps consciously, was echoing the views of the foremost artistic panjandrum of a previous age.

But McCurry also said the bill is unnecessary, echoing the views of many House Democrats.

voice

Adam didn't move until he was sure he could no longer hear her penetrating voice echoing on the staircase.

Her voice echoes off the steel lockers and the painted concrete walls.

He begins to hear his own voice , echoing the speaker and causing shadowing aloud effects.

It cast an unflattering light upon the skin, it made voices echo .

The preference was for something resembling either a low-pitched voice or the sound of a voice echoing inside a cavern.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Her designs were informed by vintage Halston, `Love Story' and the leisure suit, all echoing 1970s' style.

I heard footsteps echoing down the corridor.

Results of the study echo the findings of recent newspaper polls.

The room was vast and empty and every smallest noise we made echoed.

The thunder of the guns echoed throughout the valley.

Their voices echoed through the cave.

This new musical with its expensive costumes and scenery echoes the Hollywood glamour of the 1950s.

Thunder echoed over the mountains.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But other poems echo earlier attitudes.

I could hear it echo through the house.

In some places the reddish undercoat of the frame shows through the gold moulding, echoing the reds in the picture.

Many of us would echo her amazement from our own recent experience.

Shells-ells-ells echoes neatly down the steep canyon walls.

These two seem to echo each other and they certainly go side by side.

Type: This will echo the file information to screen.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

faint

Zach's chattering was only a faint rumbling echo in the distance.

There was the faint echo of voices rolling up to the highest balcony seats.

The exalted status of peers such as the Duke of Norfolk is a faint echo of this power in the land.

From somewhere far-off in the building, he could hear a faint echo of the nurses' choir.

strong

The psychological theories of political leaders and the state reviewed here have strong echoes in New Right thinking.

What is significant is that the signals had consistent characteristics, and we observed no other kinds of strong echoes in midwater.

■ VERB

find

Colonial controls find their echo today in certain of the measures adopted by the post-independence governments.

The puzzle lay in his certainty that his feeling for her found an echo in her own feelings.

And their shouts find echoes in the industrial towns of the Midlands and the North.

Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.

Had heard and found the echo in themselves.

hear

The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam.

If they do slow their steps, do they hear the echoes of shouts and songs?

Any animal that can hear at all may hear echoes .

On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.

Any animal that can hear at all may hear echoes .

Well, I hear a distinct echo here of the old feminist rally cry: The personal is political.

It is suggested that the bat hears echoes of its own squeaks rebounding from solid objects.

He could hear the echoes of his footsteps on the pavement.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The echo of the bells rang through the town.

There was the sound of gunshot and then its echo in the mountains.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Captain Cook's third and last voyage was a dismal echo of the first two.

Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.

On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.

The reader's interpretation is complicated by echoes of poetic use, and appreciation of the development of a topos.

The Samaritans are the last echo that remain in the world of the ancient Israelite tradition.

What she said in her letters to him is all lost except for echoes and resonances in his replies.

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