echo

Del Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishTemas relacionados:Colours & sounds, Textures, soundsechoech‧o1 /ˈekəʊ $ ˈekoʊ/ verb 1 [intransitive]CSOUND if a sound echoes, you hear it again because it was made near something such as a wall or hill The sound of an engine echoed back from the thick forest.echo through/round He could hear eerie noises echoing through the corridors.2 [intransitive]REPEAT if a place echoes, it is filled with sounds that are repeated or are similar to each otherecho with The house echoed with the sound of children’s voices.3 [transitive] literaryREPEAT to repeat what someone else has just said ‘You bet, ’ she said, echoing his words. 4 [transitive]REPEAT to repeat an idea or opinion because you agree with it The article simply echoed the NRA’s arguments against gun control.→ Ver Tabla de verbos Ejemplos desde el Corpusecho• Her designs were informed by vintage Halston, `Love Story' and the leisure suit, all echoing 1970s' style.• The room was vast and empty and every smallest noise we made echoed.• I heard footsteps echoing down the corridor.• These two seem to echo each other and they certainly go side by side.• But other poems echo earlier attitudes.• Many of us would echo her amazement from our own recent experience.• Shells-ells-ells echoes neatly down the steep canyon walls.• Thunder echoed over the mountains.• Type: This will echo the file information to screen.• Results of the study echo the findings of recent newspaper polls.• This new musical with its expensive costumes and scenery echoes the Hollywood glamour of the 1950s.• In some places the reddish undercoat of the frame shows through the gold moulding, echoing the reds in the picture.• Their voices echoed through the cave.• I could hear it echo through the house. echo through/round• By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber.• The song echoes through Mac Court, which, just a few minutes before game time, is almost empty.• He ran through the ferry-house, his steps echoing through the emptiness of the cavernous interior.• Suddenly there was a strange whooping cry above us, echoing through the forest.• I could hear it echo through the house.• Suddenly, Stairway to Paradise is echoing through the theatre and I am stepping into the spotlight sliding faster and faster.• Waves ignore frontiers and time-zones as they echo round the world.• They expressed their fury with the godly in lewd ballads that echo through Underdown's story.Temas relacionados:Colours & sounds, Textures, soundsechoecho2 noun (plural echoes) [countable] 1 CSOUNDa sound that you hear again after a loud noise, because it was made near something such as a wall Her scream was followed by a loud echo. 2 LIKE/SIMILARsomething that is very similar to something that has happened or been said beforeecho of The article contains echoes of an earlier report. This idea finds an echo in many African countries.Ejemplos desde el Corpusecho• Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.• The reader's interpretation is complicated by echoes of poetic use, and appreciation of the development of a topos.• Captain Cook's third and last voyage was a dismal echo of the first two.• What she said in her letters to him is all lost except for echoes and resonances in his replies.• The Samaritans are the last echo that remain in the world of the ancient Israelite tradition.• On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.• The echo of the bells rang through the town.echo of• The uprising was an echo of the student protests in the '60s.Origen echo2 (1300-1400) Old French Greek

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echo

Forma simple
Presente
I, you, we, they	echo
he, she, it	echoes
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Pasado
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	echoes
Presente perfecto
I, you, we, they	have echoed
he, she, it	has echoed
Pasado perfecto
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had echoed
Futuro
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will echo
Futuro perfecto
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have echoed
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Forma continua
Presente
I	am echoing
he, she, it	is echoing
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you, we, they	are echoing
Pasado
I, he, she, it	was echoing
you, we, they	were echoing
Presente perfecto
I, you, we, they	have been echoing
he, she, it	has been echoing
Pasado perfecto
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been echoing
Futuro
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be echoing
Futuro perfecto
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been echoing
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