different between sonar vs echography

English

Etymology

From SONAR, acronym from sound navigation and ranging. Coined by American scientist Frederick Vinton Hunt in the 1940s.

Pronunciation

Noun

sonar (plural sonars)

1. (nautical) echolocation
2. (nautical) A device that uses hydrophones (in the same manner as radar) to locate objects underwater.

Synonyms

• SONAR (acronym of sound navigation and ranging)

Derived terms

• Doppler sonar

Translations

See also

• radar
• lidar
• sodar

Anagrams

• Ras?n, arson, orans, roans, saron, sorna

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sono, past participle sonat)

1. to sound, to make a sound
2. to ring, to buzz

Conjugation

Related terms

• resonar
• so

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (uncountable)

1. sonar

Further reading

• “sonar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sonar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?.n?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar
• Rhymes: -o?n?r

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Derived terms

• grondsonar
• sonarapparaat
• sonarapparatuur
• sonarhut
• sonarsignaal
• sonarsysteem
• sonarvis

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonars)

1. sonar

Icelandic

Noun

sonar

1. indefinite genitive singular of sonur

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto soni (“to sound”), French sonner, Italian suonare, Spanish sonar, ultimately from Latin son? (“to make a noise”).

Verb

sonar (present tense sonas, past tense sonis, future tense sonos, imperative sonez, conditional sonus)

1. to ring

Conjugation

Occitan

Pronunciation

Verb

sonar

1. to call (to name or refer to)

   Synonyms: cridar, apelar

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. (nautical) sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)

Romanian

Etymology

From French sonar

Noun

sonar n (plural sonare)

1. sonar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sonar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?na?r/
• Hyphenation: so?nar

Noun

sòn?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. sonar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?na?/, [so?na?]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish sonar, from Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (“to sound, resound”).

Verb

sonar (first-person singular present sueno, first-person singular preterite soné, past participle sonado)

1. to sound, to ring
2. to sound (appear)

3. (figuratively) to ring a bell, to be familiar

4. (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to blow one's nose

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sonar.

Noun

sonar m (plural sonares)

1. sonar (a device that uses hydrophones to locate objects underwater)

Alternative forms

• sónar

Further reading

• “sonar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

sonar

1. present tense of sona.

Anagrams

• Arons, nosar, sorna

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin son?re, present active infinitive of son?. Compare Italian suonare.

Verb

sonar

1. (transitive) to play, sound

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

English

Etymology

echo +? -graphy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

echography (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The use of ultrasound as a diagnostic aid.

Translations

See also

• ecography