Echo vs Mock - What's the difference?

Echo is a related term of mock.

As nouns the difference between echo and mock

is that echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) while mock is an imitation, usually of lesser quality.

As a verb mock is

to mimic, to simulate.

As an adjective mock is

imitation, not genuine; fake.

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.

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(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

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Synonyms

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Anagrams

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mock

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

(Crashaw)

Mockery, the act of mocking.

* Bible, Proverbs xiv. 9

Fools make a mock at sin.

A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

He got a B in his History mock , but improved to an A in the exam.

Verb

(en verb)

To mimic, to simulate.

* Shakespeare

To see the life as lively mocked' as ever / Still sleep ' mocked death.

* Shakespeare

Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.

* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 27

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.

* Gray

Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

To tantalise, and disappoint (the hopes of).

* Bible, Judges xvi. 13

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, Henry IV , Part II, Act V, Scene III:

And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion

* 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello , Act III, Scene III:

"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost :

Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

* Milton

He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

* 1765 , Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text , page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

* 1812 , The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature , page 190:

The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Adjective

(-)

Imitation, not genuine; fake.