different between racket vs echo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic ??????? ???????? (r??at al-yad, “palm of the hand”), although this is doubtful. Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).

Noun

racket (plural rackets)

2. (countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.

   Synonyms: bat, paddle, racquet
3. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

Alternative forms

• (sporting implement): racquet

Translations

Verb

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
   • 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons

     Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

Further reading

• racket (sports equipment) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• list of racket sports on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).

Noun

racket (plural rackets)

1. A loud noise.

   Synonyms: din, noise, ruckus

2. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 408]:

     In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.

   Synonyms: con, fraud, scam, swindle; see also Thesaurus:deception

3. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
4. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

Derived terms

• racketeer, racketeering, tricky racket

Translations

Verb

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
2. (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.

References

Anagrams

• Eckart, retack, tacker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English racket.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rac?ket

Noun

racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)

1. racket (sports implement)

Derived terms

• tennisracket

French

Etymology

From English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.k?t/

Noun

racket m (plural rackets)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

Further reading

• “racket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English racket

Noun

racket m (invariable)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

Derived terms

• antiracket

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rekkert

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (r??a, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

Noun

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

References

• “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• rekkert

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (r??a, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

Noun

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

References

• “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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.