Echo vs Bluster - What's the difference?

Echo is a related term of bluster.

As nouns the difference between echo and bluster

is that echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) while bluster is pompous, officious talk.

As a verb bluster is

to speak or protest loudly.

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

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Anagrams

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bluster

English

Noun

(en noun)

Pompous, officious talk.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}

A gust of wind.

Fitful noise and violence.

Synonyms

* (pompous talk) bombast

Verb

To speak or protest loudly.

When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.

To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.

* Burke

Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.

* Sir T. More

He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.

* Fuller

As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.

To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

* Milton

And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.

Derived terms

* blusterer * blustering * blusterous * blustery

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