Mimic vs Echo - What's the difference?
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To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
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(biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
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Mock, pretended.
(mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
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(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.
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(by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).
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As verbs the difference between mimic and echo
is that mimic is to imitate, especially in order to ridicule while echo is to reflect off of a surface and return.As nouns the difference between mimic and echo
is that mimic is a person who practices mimicry, or mime while echo is a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.As an adjective mimic
is pertaining to mimicry; imitative.mimic
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Alternative forms
* mimickVerb
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Synonyms
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(en adjective)- I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare.
- Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
- Mimic hootings.
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* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
- The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
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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.}}