单词 | pre-echo |
释义 | pre-echon. rare before mid 20th cent. 1. An early indication or version of something; an anticipation, a foreshadowing. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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