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Echo vs Reminiscent - What's the difference?

echo | reminiscent |

As nouns the difference between echo and reminiscent

is that echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer) while reminiscent is one who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

As an adjective reminiscent is

of, or relating to reminiscence.

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.}}

    Synonyms

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    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    reminiscent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to reminiscence
  • suggestive of an earlier event or times
  • tending to bring some memory etc. to mind
  • *
    • The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.
  • Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent .

    Synonyms

    * evocative * redolent * remindful * resonant

    Related terms

    * reminiscence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

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