different between echo vs roar

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English r?rian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-Germanic *rair?n? (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?r, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: raw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)

1. (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
   • {1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Bk 1, Canto VI, XXIV, lines 6&7}

     Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
   • How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.

5. (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
6. (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
   • 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial

     This last action will roar thy infamy.
7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
   • 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time

     It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
9. (Britain Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry

Translations

Noun

roar (plural roars)

1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
2. The cry of the lion.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.

3. The deep cry of the bull.
4. A loud resounding noise.

   the roar of a motorbike

   • 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:

     "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."

5. A show of strength or character.

Translations

Anagrams

• Raro, orra

Swedish

Verb

roar

1. present tense of roa.