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echoic

ADJECTIVE
  1. (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
  2. 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.
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