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单词 pre-echo
释义

pre-echon.

Brit. /priːˈɛkəʊ/, U.S. /priˈɛkoʊ/
Inflections: Plural pre-echoes.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, echo n.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + echo n.
rare before mid 20th cent.
1. An early indication or version of something; an anticipation, a foreshadowing.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation
preventing1530
preoccupation1552
anticipation1553
antedate1573
prolepsis1578
forestalment1611
forestalling1641
precourse1678
pre-echo1781
pre-empting1857
previousness1881
proaction1953
proactivity1965
1781 J. McPherson Let. 15 Nov. in C. C. Davies Private Corr. Ld. Macartney (1950) 75 It was almost an Echo (Your Country would and most justly say a Pre-Echo to the Letter which we have just received) In so much that some say I wrote the Letter for the 11th of April from the Directors in March before I left England.
1944 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 5 Dec. 5/2 Pre-echoes of the annual state meeting was [sic] given by Mrs. Dom Richter.
1948 Mind 57 375 Professor Raphael..commends Price's refutation of the ‘naturalistic fallacy’ (a pre-echo of G. E. Moore's).
1961 Times 29 May 12/7 Is this a mere pre-echo of My Fair Lady?
1975 Listener 20 Nov. 674/1 The most fascinating political pre-echo since the boy Harold Wilson had his photo taken on the steps of Number Ten.
2002 Brick Spring 82/2 That sense of danger, that pre-echo of oblivion.
2. The accidental transfer of signals between different points in a recording medium, as a result of which a faint copy of a recorded sound may be heard just before the original; an audible copy of a sound resulting from this.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound
scratch1908
quality1913
surface noise1914
coloration1925
ambient noise1926
wow1932
pre-echo1935
hangover1940
presence1950
ambience1953
naturalness1966
overhang1971
1935 Gramophone June 42/2 It appears to be not ‘an echo’ in the strict sense of the word, but a ‘pre-echo’, as in all the examples I list below it occurs before the actual recording grooves are reached by the needle.
1943 Musical Times Aug. 252/1 (heading) Pre-echo on gramophone records.
1957 N.Y. Times 24 Feb. x. 15/1 Engineers say that a disk should not contain much more music than that;..the grooves will have to run too closely together with additional minutes;..there will be pre-echo, damage and results too ghastly to contemplate.
1962 Times 5 July 15/7 Prolonged storage [of tape] without rewinding..can cause ‘print-through’ (detectable as pre-echo on some discs).
1999 BBC Music Mag. Apr. 89/4 Why include a stodgy old account of Trois petites liturgies, complete with pre-echo, when it has Nagano's far superior performance?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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