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Echoing

Definition: Echoing

Echoing

Adjective

1. (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing halls".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "echoing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Echoing

Synonyms: echoing(a) (adj), reechoing (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Echoing

English words defined with "echoing": echohollowreechoing, repeat. (references)
Specialty definitions using "echoing": TYMNET. (references)

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Modern Usage: Echoing

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die! (Dracula; writing credit: John L. Balderston; Hamilton Deane)

Lyrics

I hear the drums echoing tonight ("Africa"; performing artist: Toto)

Movie/TV Titles

Wind Echoing in My Being (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Echoing

DomainTitle

Books

  • Echoing ancestors (reference)

  • Echoing God's Love: A Contemporary Collection of Inspirational Stories (reference)

  • Echoing God's Word: Formation for Catechists and Homilists in a Catechumenal Church (reference)

  • Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative (Canadian Writers Series) (reference)

  • Echoing the Word: The Ministry of Forming Disciples (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Echoing

Illustrations:
Echoing

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Sounds Captioned with "Echoing".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Echoing guitar.Echoing jungle sounds.
Echoing drum machine beat.Echoing outer space music.
Electronic repeating echoing tone.Echoing laugh of a baby.
Echoing bass.Echoing laugh of a crazy man.
Echoing sound.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Echoing

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

In 1999 the Secretary for Information was quoted in the press as stating that additional private television and radio channels would soon be licensed, echoing a pledge made by President Musharraf. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Echoing

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Folks, the Limbaugh Echo Syndrome is becoming more and more common out there, and this time the Reverend Al Sharpton is the man that we cite for echoing El Rushbo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Echoing

"Echoing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.91% of the time. "Echoing" is used about 337 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)89.91%30316,643
Adjective (general or positive)8.61%2964,444
Noun (proper)0.89%3202,518
Noun (singular)0.59%2245,945
                    Total100.00%337N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Echoing

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "echoing": re-echoing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Echoing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

echoing green

29

echoing

4

echoing foundation green

3

echoing green lyrics

3

echoing sound

3

echoing hills

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Echoing

Language Translations for "echoing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

发出回声 (Echoed). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaikuva (loud, sonorous). (various references)

   

French

  

sonore. (various references)

   

German

  

widerhallend (re echoing, resounding). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"""ו" (resonance, reverberation). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"아리침. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

echoingay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

sonor (canorous, deep-toned, loud, orotund, resonant, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, soft, sonorous, sonorously, sound, vocal, voiced, voiceful). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эхоконтроль. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Echoing

Derivations

Words ending with "echoing": outechoing, reechoing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Echoing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cehovin, Choong, Eachuin, echoings, Eichhorn, Eichorn, Elchaig, emhain, enchoying, pecheneg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Echoing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "echoing" (pronounced e"kōing)
3-ō i ngbellowing, billowing, borrowing, burrowing, following, foreshadowing, harrowing, hollowing, mellowing, narrowing, overshadowing, shadowing, swallowing, vetoing, wallowing, yellowing, zeroing.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Echoing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-o"

-1 letter: chigoe, coigne, eching, hoeing.

-2 letters: chine, chino, coign, conge, genic, hinge, incog, neigh, niche, ohing.

-3 letters: chin, chon, cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, echo, gien, gone, hone, hong, icon, inch, nice, nigh, once.

-4 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, ego, eng, eon, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, hic, hie, hin, hoe, hog, hon, ice, ich, ion, nog, noh, one.

-5 letters: eh, en, go, he, hi, ho, in, ne, no, oe, oh, on.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-o"
 

+1 letter: cohering, ochering.

 

+2 letters: coheading, coshering, hectoring, hegemonic, reechoing, theogonic, tochering.

 

+3 letters: archegonia, beclothing, chirurgeon, choppering, chowdering, coinhering, crocheting, debouching, echeloning, ethnologic, homecoming, megaphonic, nightscope, outechoing, pathogenic, photogenic, rechoosing, reclothing, retouching, trichogyne, vouchering.

 

+4 letters: archegonial, archegonium, atherogenic, bescorching, chaperoning, checkrowing, chirurgeons, cholinergic, chromogenic, encroaching, godchildren, goldfinches, grouchiness, hectoringly, helicopting, heterogonic, homecomings, lichenology, morphogenic, nightscopes, nonteaching, outcheating, outreaching, outscheming, overarching, psychogenic, renographic, reproaching, reschooling, ricocheting, scouthering, technologic, trichogynes.

 

+5 letters: archegoniate, beachcombing, bodychecking, bronchogenic, chalcogenide, chemisorbing, chronologies, cohostessing, conchologies, ethnographic, ethnological, forechecking, forereaching, geotechnical, hallucinogen, histogenetic, honeycombing, iconographer, nightclothes, orthogenetic, outachieving, outpreaching, overcharging, overchilling, overcoaching, overmatching, overreaching, packinghouse, pathogenetic, phenological, phylogenetic, ricochetting, scenographic, schizogonies, schnorkeling, stenographic, technologies, technologist, technologize, truncheoning.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Echoing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 63 68 6F 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -.-.    ....    ---    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0063 0068 006F 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39697481758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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