Report vs Echo - What's the difference?
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, title= (label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
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(label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
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(label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
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(label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
(label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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(label) To be accountable.
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To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
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To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
(label) To refer.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.
To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times
A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.
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(ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
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, title= (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
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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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Report is a related term of echo.
As nouns the difference between report and echo
is that report is report (all senses) while echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).report
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(wikipedia report)Verb
(en verb)Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported
Derived terms
* reporter * underreportNoun
(en noun)- A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
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- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- ...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.
Derived terms
* (piece of information) on report, report card * (employee) direct report, indirect reportecho
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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.}}
