ADJECTIVE
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(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound
it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term
onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises - like or characteristic of an echo
How To Use echoic In A Sentence
- Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
- This paper applies some pragmatic theories to explore the pragmatic features of irony, including its echoic and adaptive traits.
- A subsequent neck ultrasound revealed a hypoechoic, well-circumscribed, 1.8-cm mass with moderate vascularity in the lower pole of the right thyroid lobe.
- Accordingly, when encountering an ironic text such as Map's, the reader must first recognize that an ironic utterance is an echoic interpretation (literal or nonliteral) of a preceding proposition.
- An attempt is made to analyze the cases of irony occurring in a Chinese literary work-Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary within the framework of the echoic interpretation theory.
- There are a plethora of echoic sounds which pupils may brain storm and then use those selected to write poetry.
- The swimmer, the dreamer—he had no sense of himself as himself yet—heard a voice, echoic and distorted. Fear Itself
- I also remember being in the anechoic chamber at Lincoln Lab getting a demo in adaptive noise suppression algorithm use, which cleaned something up with a really horrendous signal to noise ratio.... Making Light: Open thread 134
- In such cases, ultrasonography reveals a hypoechoic or anechoic structure protruding from a segmentally thickened colonic wall.
- Like Standard English crick-crack, which represents a repeated sharp sound, the synonymous crickety-crick is echoic.