Difference between Echo and Repeat

What is the difference between Echo and Repeat?

Echo as a noun is a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. while Repeat as a noun is an iteration, a repetition.

Echo

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer. The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed. The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already. To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo. To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

Example sentence: I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Repeat

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To do or say again (and again).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An iteration, a repetition.A rerun, something that has been done before.

Example sentence: You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

We hope you now know whether to use Echo or Repeat in your sentence.

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