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echo | agree |

As a noun echo

is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).

As a verb agree is

.

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.
  • *
  • * {{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.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    agree

    English

    Verb

  • To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
    • all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594
    • , author=Thomas Lodge , title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla , page=46 , passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • If music and sweet poetry agree .
  • * (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
    • Their witness agreed not together.
  • * (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
    • The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
  • To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
    • to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  • (transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1666
    • , author=Samuel Pepys , title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys , page=88 , passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005
    • , author=Paddy McNutt , title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective , page=59 , passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}
  • * 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :
    • Bishops agree sex abuse rules
  • To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.
    • Agree with thine adversary quickly.
  • * (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
    • Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
  • To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
    • the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  • To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
    • the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  • (grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to'' or ''upon . * US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

    Synonyms

    * assent, concur, consent, acquiesce, accede, engage, promise, stipulate, contract, bargain, correspond, harmonize, fit, tally, coincide, comport

    Antonyms

    * disagree

    Derived terms

    * disagree * disagreement

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