单词 | echo-sound |
释义 | > as lemmasecho-sound ΚΠ 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 167 Ye make one worde both beginne and end your verse, which therefore I call the slow retourne, otherwise the Eccho sound. echo-sound echo-sound v. and n. [as a back-formation] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > of instrument, etc.: detect [verb (transitive)] > locate or track radiolocate1941 echolocate1944 to lock on to ——1945 radar-track1948 acquire1953 echo-sound1953 1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World vi. 63 We were passing the same area in the research ship Élie Monnier when the echo-sound tape recorded another massive object on the floor. 1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries iii. 51 His having previously echo-sounded herring shoals in the same area. < as lemmas |
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