Echo vs Caterwauling - What's the difference?
echo | caterwauling | Related terms |
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
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* Fuller
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
(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)
* Keble
(by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
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A sound that caterwauls.
* Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!
Echo is a related term of caterwauling.
As nouns the difference between echo and caterwauling
is that echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) while caterwauling is a sound that caterwauls.As a verb caterwauling is
.echo
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
- The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
William E. Conner
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.}}
- Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
- Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
Derived terms
* echoacousia * echo boomer * echocardiogram, echocardiography * echogenic, echogenicity * echogram * echolalia * echo organ * echopathy * echophonocardiography, echophony * echoplex * echo-ranging * echo sounder * echo stop * echotexture * hypoechoicVerb
(es)- Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
- The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
Sarah Glaz
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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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----caterwauling
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd rather hear the old barn door at home squeak any day.