In Greek Mythology, mountain nymph. She incurred Hera's wrath with her chatter and, as punishment, could only repeat the last words said by others. In unrequited love for Narcissus, she pined away until her voice alone remained.
Also, of course, the drum machine for the bunnymen.
Also an audio player by Unsanity for MacOS.
While the visuals and audio quality are fairly standard, the real claim to fame Echo has is its skin support, including some of the first actual innovations seen since Audion's limited animations and alpha-blending (though Echo doesn't actually have alpha-blending at this point).
Among these are attaching scripts to the skins which allow for multiple windows, inlined video, curved sliders, and other niceties.
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A Nymph of the trees and springs; some of the legends surrounding her provide explanations of the phenomenon of echoes. In one account Echo was vainly loved by Pan and loved a satyr instead, who shunned her; in revenge, Pan sent some shepherds mad, who tore her to pieces. In another account Echo loved Narcissus unrequitedly and pined away; when she died her voice alone remained - this repeated the last syllables of spoken words.
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echo [FidoNet] n.
A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, this entry manually entered by rootbeer277.
Echo is one of Ms. Block's longer stories. Its shifting storyline bounces back and forth across time and jumps between perspectives, always returning to first person when Echo is telling her own story.
Mainly, Echo is a girl on a quest to find someone to love her as much as her parents loved each other. She has felt inadequate since young childhood when she saw how amazing and angelic her mother was and how entranced her father was with her; she has felt invisible for most of her young life. She searches for identity in the book and seeks to perfect herself by latching onto friends and lovers and going through bouts of dissatisfaction with her physical appearance.
Echo tries to perfect herself by starving her body until she is sickly and thin, and later trying to achieve health and beauty by excessive workouts. She also is envious of all the beautiful people in her life and emulates them while wishing to be them. But eventually, Echo uses all of her experiences with her friends, lovers, and experiences to find that they were all her "angels," and that she is worthwhile in own right.
The real-life hardships conveyed in Ms. Block's book stick to their usual poetic style, and it is simply a joy to read.
Ech"o (ek"O), n.; pl. Echoes (ek"Oz). [L. echo, Gr. 'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`, 'h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. vAç to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. écho.]
1.
A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
The babbling echo mocks the hounds.Shak.
The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.Pope.
2.
Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.Fuller.
Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.R. L. Stevenson.
3.
(a) (Myth. & Poetic)
A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell.Milton.
(b) (Gr. Myth.)
A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch.Milton.
Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell. --Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound. --To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. M. Arnold.
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.Shak.
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Ech"o, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes (&?;).]
To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.Dryden.
The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever.Keble.
To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they &?;nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them.Macaulay.
Ech"o, v. i.
To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.
Ech"o (?), n.; pl. Echoes (#). [L. echo, Gr. &?; echo.] (Whist)
(a)
A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps.
(b)
A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
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