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Echoed vs Reverberated - What's the difference?

echoed | reverberated |

As verbs the difference between echoed and reverberated

is that echoed is (echo) while reverberated is (reverberate).

echoed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (echo)

    • 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

    * See also

    Anagrams

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    reverberated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reverberate)

    • reverberate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to ring with many echos
  • to have a lasting effect
  • * '>citation
  • to repeatedly return
  • To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
  • * Shakespeare
    • who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
  • To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
    • Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
  • To fuse by reverberated heat.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • reverberated into glass
  • to rebound or recoil
  • to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
  • (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

    • References

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    Related terms

    * reverberation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • reverberant
  • * Shakespeare
    • the reverberate hills
  • Driven back, as sound; reflected.
    • (Drayton)
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