Echo vs Muffin - What's the difference?
echo | muffin |
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
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, 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.).
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, title= (British) a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten
(US) A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
(especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
(computing) a mechanism used in the analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine
(slang) a term of endearment
(sexual slang) a vulva
(baseball, slang) a less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball
(slang) a charming, attractive young man
As nouns the difference between echo and muffin
is that echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) while muffin is muffin (individual cake).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.}}
