echo
US: /ˈɛkoʊ/
UK: /ˈɛkəʊ/
UK: /ˈɛkəʊ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
echo /'ekou/
- danh từ, số nhiều echoes
- tiếng dội, tiếng vang
- to cheer someone to the echo: vỗ tay vang dậy hoan hô ai
- sự bắt chước mù quáng
- người bắt chước mù quáng; người ủng hộ mù quáng
- thể thơ liên hoàn
- (đánh bài) ám hiệu (cho biết số lá bài mình có trong hoa đang đánh) cho đồng bọn
- (the Echo) tiếng vang (nhân cách hoá)
- tiếng dội, tiếng vang
- ngoại động từ
- dội lại, vang lại (tiếng động)
- lặp lại (lời ai), lặp lại lời (ai), lặp lại ý kiến (ai)
- nội động từ
- có tiếng dội (nơi, chốn); dội lại, vang lại (tiếng động)
- (đánh bài) làm ám hiệu cho đồng bạn (biết số lá bài mình có trong hoa đang đánh)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun (plural echoes)
1 the reflecting of sound off a wall or inside an enclosed space so that a noise appears to be repeated; a sound that is reflected back in this way: There was an echo on the line and I couldn't hear clearly. + The hills sent back a faint echo. + the echo of footsteps running down the corridor + 'So you love him, do you?' Magda's voice was a mocking echo of my own.
2 the fact of an idea, event, etc. being like another and reminding you of it; sth that reminds you of sth else: Yesterday's crash has grim echoes of previous disasters.
3 an opinion or attitude that agrees with or repeats one already expressed or thought: His words were an echo of what she had heard many times before. + The speech found an echo in the hearts of many of the audience (= they agreed with it).
+ verb (echoes, echoing, echoed, echoed)
1 [V] if a sound echoes, it bounces off a wall, the side of a mountain, etc. so that you can hear it again: Her footsteps echoed in the empty room. + The gunshot echoed through the forest.
2 ~ (to / with sth)
~ sth (back) to send back and repeat a sound; to be full of a sound: [V] The whole house echoed. + The street echoed with the cries of children. + [VN] The valley echoed back his voice.
3 [VN] (written) to repeat an idea or opinion because you agree with it: 'More police, that's what we need,' he said, echoing his father's views on the subject. + This is a view echoed by many on the right of the party.
4 (written) to repeat what sb else has just said, especially because you find it surprising: [V speech] 'He's gone!' Viv echoed incredulously. [also VN]
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 reverberation, repercussion, repetition, iteration, reiteration:
The echo of the church bells could be heard throughout the valley.
2 imitation, copy, replica or replication, duplication, reproduction, simulation, facsimile; reflection, mirror image, repetition:
Modern Rome is but a feeble echo of its glorious past.
v.
3 resound, reverberate, ring:
The hall echoed with children's laughter.
4 imitate, ape, parrot, mimic, copy, duplicate, reproduce, simulate, repeat, emulate, mirror, reflect:
The poems are unoriginal and merely echo the works of others.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
distant, faint | clear, distinct, strong
(often figurative) There are distinct echoes of Elvis Presley in his vocal style.
| hollow | returning
The bat compares the sound of its cry with the sound of the returning echo.
VERB + ECHO
hear, listen for/to
We could just hear a faint echo.
| produce, send back, send out
Their footsteps on the bare boards sent out hollow echoes.
| find
(figurative) The political upheavals find an echo in the art of the time.
ECHO + VERB
sound
A faint echo sounded in the cave.
| die (away)
The echo slowly died away.
| come back, return
An echo came back from the walls of the building.
PREP.
~ from
the echo from a brick wall
Concise English dictionary
echoes|echoed|echoing'ekəʊ
noun
+the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
+(Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
+a reply that repeats what has just been said
verb
+to say again or imitate
+ring or echo with sound
+call to mind
