different between copy vs echo

English

Alternative forms

• coppy, coppie, copie (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin c?pia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• Hyphenation: copy
• Rhymes: -?pi

Noun

copy (plural copies)

1. The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
   • 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy

     I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.

2. An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

3. (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
4. (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
5. (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
6. (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.

7. A school work pad.

8. A printed edition of a book or magazine.

9. Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
10. (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

      Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.

11. (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
    • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

      She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.

12. (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
13. (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• original

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

1. (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
2. (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

3. (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

4. (transitive) To imitate.
   • 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy

     We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.

5. (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From English copy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kopy/, [?ko?py]
• Syllabification: co?py

Noun

copy

1. (slang) A copywriter.
2. (slang) A copy (output of copywriter).

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• echoe (obsolete)
• eccho (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k??
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??ko?/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
3. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
4. (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, Will o' the Mill

     Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

5. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
6. Echo, the letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
7. (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
8. (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
9. (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
10. (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

1. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
2. (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).

   • Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

   • 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year, Christmas Day

     The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.

3. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).

4. (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
5. (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Translations

Anagrams

• Choe, HCEO, oche

Asturian

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xo/

Noun

echo n

1. echo (reflected sound)

Synonyms

• ozv?na

Further reading

• echo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• echo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.xo?/
• Hyphenation: echo

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch echo, from Latin ?ch?, from Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?), from ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Noun

echo m (plural echo's, diminutive echootje n)

1. echo

   Synonym: weergalm

Derived terms

• echoën

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

echo

1. first-person singular present indicative of echoën
2. imperative of echoën

Ladino

Noun

echo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ??????)

1. work

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (?kh?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?.k?o?/, [?e?k?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.ko/, [???k?]

Noun

?ch? f (genitive ?ch?s); fourth declension

1. echo

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (nominative/vocative singular in -?).

Other forms:

• Accusative singular ?ch? and ?ch?n; only these forms and the nominative singular are attested in ancient Latin, not the other forms mentioned above.

References

• echo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• echo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• echo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• echo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.x?/

Noun

echo n

1. echo

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

echo m (plural echos)

1. Obsolete spelling of eco (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??o/, [?e.t??o]
• Homophone: hecho
• Rhymes: -et?o

Verb

echo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of echar.