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Bedlam vs Echo - What's the difference?

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Bedlam is a related term of echo.


As nouns the difference between bedlam and echo

is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).

bedlam

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
  • * 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
    • Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
  • * 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
    • The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
  • (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
  • (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
  • * 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
    • But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.

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    echo

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
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  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
  • * Fuller
    • Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
  • (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
  • The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

    • Derived terms

    * echoacousia * echo boomer * echocardiogram, echocardiography * echogenic, echogenicity * echogram * echolalia * echo organ * echopathy * echophonocardiography, echophony * echoplex * echo-ranging * echo sounder * echo stop * echotexture * hypoechoic

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off of a surface and return.
  • (by extension) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
  • * Keble
    • The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
  • (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
    • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}

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