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Echo vs Eco - What's the difference?

echo | eco |

Eco is a alternative form of echo.



As nouns the difference between echo and eco

is that echo is a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer while eco is a proposed name for the common currency that the West African Monetary Zone plans to introduce in the framework of Economic Community of West African States.

As a verb echo

is to reflect off of a surface and return.

As an adjective eco is

environmentally friendly or sensitive.

As an acronym ECO is

engine cut-off or engine cutoff; a NASA term for when rocket engines are shutdown.

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.}}

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    eco

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of ecology

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Environmentally friendly or sensitive.
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, December 28, Lucy Siegle, Why older isn't always wiser, The Observer citation
    • , passage=Except that the smart eco (and fiscal) thing to do is to wait until your current appliance has reached its break-even point

    Etymology 2

    From ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, who propose to use the currency.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A proposed name for the common currency that the West African Monetary Zone plans to introduce in the framework of Economic Community of West African States.

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