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Definition: Echoing |
EchoingAdjective1. (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: EchoingSynonyms: echoing(a) (adj), reechoing (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Echoing |
| English words defined with "echoing": echo ♦ hollow ♦ reechoing, repeat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "echoing": TYMNET. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 89.91% | 303 | 16,643 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.61% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.89% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.59% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 337 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "echoing": re-echoing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "echoing": outechoing, reechoing. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "echoing" (pronounced e"kōing) |
| 3 | -ō i ng | bellowing, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 63 68 6F 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.-. .... --- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c h o i n g |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39697481758073 |
| 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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