Definition of pre-echo in English:
pre-echo
nounPlural pre-echoes priːˈɛkəʊ
1A faint copy heard just before an actual sound in a recording, caused by the accidental transfer of signals.
very faint pre-echoes do not really mar the recording
Example sentencesExamples
- Mackerras gets the brasher engineering, and there is some pre-echo here as well.
- One only mildly irritating curiosity worth mentioning here is a little bit of what sounds like pre-echo.
2A foreshadowing.
one can detect pre-echoes of both the later works
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not a surprise, then, that echoes and pre-echoes of all three composers - with all of the charm but without much of the genius - can be heard in his work.
- It featured some striking visual images, and Graham Greene's story, set against a background of racetrack racketeers, offers intriguing pre-echoes of Brighton Rock (which he published in 1938).
- A curious pre-echo of Brecht's sardonic wit in East Germany 30 years later when the citizenry was rioting against the autocratic Communist rulers: ‘The government will have to dissolve the people and elect a new one.’
- In a kind of pre-echo of Kant and Wittgenstein, Nicolas of Cusa argued that wisdom consists in an awareness of the limits of one's knowledge.
- There are some fascinating pre-echoes here of present-day events, but it would be foolish to try to draw ‘lessons’ from them.
verbpre-echoespriːˈɛkəʊ
[with object]Foreshadow.
these three sonatas all pre-echo things to come