Echo

n.	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.	(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.
	4.	(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.
	4.	(Whist, Contract Bridge) 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. 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 a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; - generally superseded by the swell.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.
v. t.	1.	To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. [imp. & p. p. Echoed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. - 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes ( ).] 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 envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. - Macaulay.
v. i.	1.	To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

Noun	1.	echo - the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped Synonyms: reverberation, sound reflection, replication
	2.	Echo - (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
	3.	echo - a reply that repeats what has just been said
Verb	1.	echo - to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" Synonyms: repeat
	2.	echo - ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring
	3.	echo - call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" Synonyms: recall

1.		echo - A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
2.		echo - A Unix command that just prints its arguments.

European Community Host Organisation (org., Europe) To hear or make an echo in your dream, symbolizes your need to repeat yourself in order to be heard and for others to believe you. You should also pay attention to the power and impact of your own words. You are waiting and hoping for a reaction from those around you. It is also symbolic of the soul.CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, accord, acknowledge, acknowledgment, act like, action and reaction, adumbration, affect, agree, agree in opinion, agree with, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon, antiphonal chanting, antiphony, ape, assume, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, back answer, back talk, backchat, be affected, be in tune, be inspired, be involved, be moved, be reflected, be sent back, beam, beat signal, blips, boom, booming, borrow, bounce back, bounceback, bounces, care about, caring, catch the flame, catch the infection, change color, chime in with, choir, chord, chorus, claviature, close with, coincide, color with emotion, come again, come back, come back at, come up again, comeback, concern, concur, conform to, conformist, console, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, crib, cuckoo, dig, display, dissembler, dissimulator, ditto, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, double-dot display, doubling, duplicate, duplication, echo back, echo signal, echoer, echoist, eighty-eight, empathize with, empathy, emulate, encore, evasive reply, facsimile, fake, faker, fall in with, fellow feeling, fingerboard, flash back, forge, forger, give acknowledgment, give answer, go along with, go back, go like, go with, great, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, hoke, hoke up, hypocrite, identification, identify with, imitator, impersonator, impostor, involvement, iteration, ivories, keep coming, keyboard, keys, local oscillator signal, make like, manual, meet, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mirror, mirror image, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, organ manual, outline, output signal, parrot, pathos, pedals, phony, piano keys, picture, pips, plagiarism, plagiarist, plagiarize, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, predictable response, quotation, quote, radar signal, react, reading, ready reply, reappear, reappearance, rebirth, reboation, rebound, receipt, recur, recurrence, redo, redouble, redoubling, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reflect, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, regurgitate, regurgitation, reincarnate, reincarnation, reiteration, rejoin, rejoinder, relate to emotionally, relating, renew, renewal, reoccur, reoccurrence, repartee, repeat, repeat performance, repercussion, repetition, replica, replication, reply, repost, reproduce, reproduction, rescript, rescription, resound, resounding, respond, respondence, responsion, responsiveness, responsory, responsory report, resume, resumption, retort, retroaction, return, return answer, return for answer, return signal, reverberate, reverberation, revert, revive, revulsion, ring, riposte, rise, roll, rumble, rumbling, say, say again, say in reply, send back, shadow, share, sharing, sheep, shoot back, short answer, side with, signal, signal display, silhouette, simulate, simulation, simulator, snappy comeback, solo, sound, spot, strike in with, swell, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathize with, sympathy, talk back, target image, thunder, thundering, transmitter signal, unthinking response, vibes, vibrations, video signal, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

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