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Vortex vs Echo - What's the difference?

vortex | echo |

As nouns the difference between vortex and echo

is that vortex is while echo is echo (a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer).

vortex

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex'''''. The ' vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
  • (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  • (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  • (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
  • (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

    • Quotations

    2004': the consumer '''vortex that is East Hampton — ''The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

    Related terms

    * vortical * vorticity

    See also

    * eddy * ley line * maelstrom

    References

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    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

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----