Echo vs Follow - What's the difference?
echo | follow | Related terms |
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
*
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
* 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.).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
To go or come after in a sequence.
To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
To understand, to pay attention to.
To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
To be a logical consequence of.
To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
* Shakespeare
Echo is a related term of follow.
As a noun echo
is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).As a verb follow is
to go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.echo
English
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
* See alsoAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----follow
English
Verb
(en verb)- We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow .
- O, had I but followed the arts!