What is "echoes"

Echo \Ech"o\ ([e^]k"[-o]), n.; pl. Echoes ([e^]k"[=o]z). [L. echo, Gr. 'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`, 'h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. v[=a][,c] to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. ['e]cho.]

1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

   The babbling echo mocks the hounds.
   --Shak.

   The woods shall answer, and the echo ring.
   --Pope.

2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

   Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
   --Fuller.

   Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.
   --R. L. Stevenson.

3. 1. (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

      Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell.
      --Milton.

   2. (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

      Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch.
      --Milton.

4. (Whist, Contract Bridge)

   1. A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps.

   2. A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.

      Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.

      Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound.

      To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause.
      --M. Arnold.

      I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again.
      --Shak.

Echo \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes.]

1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

   Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
   --Dryden.

   The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever.
   --Keble.

2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

   They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them.
   --Macaulay.

n. (plural of echo English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: echo)

See echo

1. n. the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped [syn: reverberation, sound reflection, replication]

2. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

3. a reply that repeats what has just been said

4. [also: echoes (pl)]

1. v. to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" [syn: repeat]

2. ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: resound, ring, reverberate]

3. call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: recall]

4. [also: echoes (pl)]

Echoes is a daily two-hour music radio program hosted by John Diliberto featuring a soundscape of ambient, space, electronica, and new-age music. The program features in-depth artist interviews and intimate "living room" performances. Interview subjects have included Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, and Philip Glass. Live performers have included Yo-Yo Ma, Pat Metheny, Loreena McKennitt, Steve Roach, Air and many others. Echoes has produced sixteen CD collections from these and other in-studio performances. Distributed by Public Radio International, Echoes is currently heard on about 80 radio stations. Echoes can also be heard on the web, with 24/7 streaming and on-demand audio available.

Echoes was created in 1989 by Kimberly Haas and John Diliberto, a music journalist whose works have appeared in Billboard, Pulse, Jazziz, Down Beat, Musician, and Amazon.com. He has also produced Peabody Award-winning documentaries for National Public Radio's Jazz Profiles. Haas and Diliberto had previously produced the award-winning documentary series Totally Wired (1982–1989), which won Columbia University's Major Armstrong Award, the Ohio State Award, and the National Federation of Community Broadcaster's Award.

Both Haas and Diliberto began their careers at WXPN while students at the University of Pennsylvania. Diliberto was Music Director from 1974-1976. Haas was Program Director from 1980 until 1986. Diliberto founded the space music program Star's End in 1976, and it remains on the air to this day.

Echoes has also produced 21 CDs of live performances from the program. The latest is "Live 21".

Echoes may refer to:

• the plural of Echo

Echoes is the debut studio album by American dance-punk band The Rapture, released in 2003.

The album was highly praised by Pitchfork, who hailed the album as the best of 2003, as well as placing the songs "I Need Your Love" at number 323 and "House of Jealous Lovers" at number 16 on their best songs of the 2000s countdown. Resident Advisor ranked the album at number 35 on their list of the best albums of the decade. The song "House of Jealous Lovers" was also ranked sixth on NMEs list of the top 100 tracks of the decade.

"Echoes" is a composition by Pink Floyd including lengthy instrumental passages, sound effects, and musical improvisation. Written in 1970 by all four members of the group, "Echoes" provides the extended finale to Pink Floyd's album Meddle. The track has a running time of 23:31 and takes up the entire second side of the vinyl recording.

It also appears in shortened form as the fifth track on the compilation album which took its name, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd. "Echoes" is the third-longest song in Pink Floyd's catalogue, after " Atom Heart Mother" (23:44) and the combined segments of " Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (26:01). Unlike those pieces, it is not explicitly divided into separate parts; however, the composition was originally assembled from separate fragments and was later split in two parts to serve as both the opening and closing numbers in the band's film Live at Pompeii. It retains the title as the longest song by Pink Floyd that is not split into parts. The first part was used to open the band's 1987–90 A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour.

"Echoes" is a popular song.

It was written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1950.

It was first recorded in 1950 by The Ink Spots whose recording reached #24 on the US. Pop charts. In 1950, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae also recorded the composition. The Stafford/MacRae recording, released by Capitol Records as catalog number 782, was backed with " Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song)" on the flip side. The song reached #18 on the Billboard charts and #13 on the Cash Box charts.

Sammy Kaye Vocal refrain by The Kaydets. Recorded in New York City on October 7, 1949. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3595 (in USA) and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number JO 170.

Echoes is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's fifth album, released in 1979. The album is a " greatest hits" sampler of songs from Taylor's first three albums.

Echoes is the sixth in the series of Time Hunter novellas and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. It is written by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett.

The novella is also available in a limited edition hardback, signed by the authors (ISBN 1-903889-46-4)

(The series is not formally connected to the Doctor Who fictional universe.)

Echoes is a debut studio album by Maggie Reilly. It was released on 30 April 1992 by EMI. The album was produced by Armand Volker, Harald Steinhauer, Kristian Schultze and Stefan Zauner. The album includes her song " Everytime We Touch", which was a major hit in Europe in the 1990s, reaching #1 chart positions in many countries. The album topped the Norwegian Albums Charts and was generally top 30 album.

Echoes is the 12th episode in the television series Fear Itself on NBC. This episode was completed but not broadcast in the United States.

Echoes is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in October 2004. The book is Steel's sixty-fourth novel.

Echoes is a four-part Irish drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. It was produced for Channel 4 by Working Title Films in association with RTÉ.

"Echoes" is the first single to be released by British indie rock band Klaxons from their second studio album, Surfing the Void. The song was released through Polydor Records as a digital download on 15 August 2010, with a vinyl and CD single release the following day. The single was added to BBC Radio 1's A Playlist in July 2010. The single cover was shot by London-based photographer Ben Rayner. The song appears on Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in 2010 along with the song " Twin Flames"

Echoes is an American five-issue comic book limited series written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Rahsan Ekedal. Published by Top Cow Productions, it tells the story of Brian Cohn, a man with schizophrenia who learns his father may have been a serial killer. The first issue was released in December 29, 2010.

Echoes is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1984 and released on the Pablo label.

Echoes is a remix album by Industrial band Front Line Assembly. It was released on May 13, 2014 through Metropolis.

Echoes (originally Black Echoes) is a monthly magazine of soul, jazz, R&B, hip hop and reggae. It was founded as a weekly newspaper, Black Echoes, in 1976 and later changed its name to just Echoes. It became a monthly magazine in 2000.

Echoes is a 2014 American Supernatural horror film directed by Nils Timmi and starring Steven Brand, Kate French, and Kevin Brewerton.Story revolves around a young beautiful writer struggling with horrifying, sleep-paralysis induced visions,retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated desert house. As the visions intensify, she finds herself on the verge of losing her mind...or uncovering a life-threatening secret.

Echoes is the fifth studio album by English recording artist Will Young. It was released by RCA Records and Sony Music on 19 August 2011. A departure from previous albums which saw him working with a diverse roster of collaborators, Young worked with music producer Richard X and Pete Hofmann on the bulk of the album. A television special, A Night With Will Young, aired on ITV on 27 August 2011 to coincide with the release of the album and recognising Young's impending ten-year anniversary in the music industry.

Upon its release, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, becoming Young's third album to do so. " Jealousy" was released as the lead single from the album on 19 August 2011, reaching number five on the UK Singles Chart. Further singles " Come On", " Losing Myself", and "I Just Want a Lover" were less successful and failed to reach the top forty. Echoes sold 65,000 copies in its first week and has now sold just over 550,000 copies in the UK.

Echoes (English version) / Échos (French version) is the fifth international studio album by Indonesian recording artist Anggun. The English version was first released by Sony Music in Anggun's native country on 20 May 2011 and the French version was released by Warner Music in Belgium on 4 November 2011. The album was re-packaged in 2012 to promote her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The album was produced by Anggun—the first time since her international career—under her own record label April Earth. She co-wrote all original materials on Echoes, alongside Gioacchino Maurici, Pierre Jaconelli, Jean-Pierre Pilot and William Rousseau. However, Échos also became her first French album on which she does not have any writing credit.

Upon its release, Echoes topped the Indonesian Albums Chart and was certified platinum in the first week. It eventually received quadruple platinum and became the best-selling pop album of 2011 in Indonesia. Meanwhile, Échos reached number 48 on the French Albums Chart and has sold over 15,000 copies in France. Echoes received Gold Export Award for its sales outside France. Singles released were " Only Love"/"Hanyalah Cinta", "Buy Me Happiness", "Berkilaulah" and " Echo (You and I)" from Echoes, as well as "Je partirai", "Mon meilleur amour", "Echo (You and I)" and "Quelques mots d'amour" from Échos.

Echoes (stylized as echoes) is debut studio album by Brooklyn based electronic music duo Creep (often titled as CREEP). The album was released on November 12, 2013 on iTunes under Creep's own independent label CREEP INTL.. On the same day, the album was released worldwide on CD format. There are six singles released from the album: Days (featuring Romy Madley Croft), You (featuring Nina Sky), Animals (featuring Holly Miranda), Call Her (featuring Tricky and Alejandra De La Deheza), Vertigo (featuring Lamb member Lou Rhodes) and Dim the Lights (featuring Sia Furler). Album was recorded four years (from 2009 till middle 2013).

' Echoes 'is the upcoming fourth studio album by British rock band Young Guns. It is scheduled for release on 16 September 2016 through Windup Records.