echoest

Verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

1. (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
   • With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493

   Synonyms:

   ring

2. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
   • 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.2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A
3. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
   • Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
4. (figuratively, transitive) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
   • Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
5. (transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
   • The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy
6. (intransitive) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

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