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Reverberate vs Resonates - What's the difference?

reverberate | resonates |

As verbs the difference between reverberate and resonates

is that reverberate is to ring with many echos while resonates is (resonate).

As an adjective reverberate

is reverberant.

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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    Adjective

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

    resonates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (resonate)

  • resonate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
  • The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
  • To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
  • His words resonated with the crowd.

    See also

    * resonance ----