Echo vs Duplicate - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between echo and duplicate

is that echo is a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer while duplicate is one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

As verbs the difference between echo and duplicate

is that echo is to reflect off of a surface and return while duplicate is to make a copy of.

As an adjective duplicate is

being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

echo

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)

A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

* Shakespeare

The babbling echo mocks the hounds.

* Alexander Pope

The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

(figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

* Fuller

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

* Robert Louis Stevenson

Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

* echoacousia * echo boomer * echocardiogram, echocardiography * echogenic, echogenicity * echogram * echolalia * echo organ * echopathy * echophonocardiography, echophony * echoplex * echo-ranging * echo sounder * echo stop * echotexture * hypoechoic

Verb

(es)

(of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off of a surface and return.

(by extension) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.

* (John Dryden)

Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

* Keble

The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.

(by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

Synonyms

* See also

Anagrams

* English nouns with irregular plurals ----

duplicate

English

Adjective

(-)

being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

This is a duplicate entry.

Verb

(duplicat)

to make a copy of

If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?

to do repeatedly; to do again

You don't need to duplicate my efforts.

to produce something equal to

He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

Noun

(en noun)

One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

This is a duplicate , but a very good replica.

* Sir W. Temple

I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.

(legal) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.

(Burrill)

The game of duplicate bridge.

* 1999 , Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)

The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate ; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships

The game of duplicate Scrabble.

Synonyms

* reproduction