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to echo

to echo

3 4.2
To show text on the screen in a computer program
  • verb
  • /ˈɛkoʊ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mostrar
  • To check the output, simply echo the configuration settings to the terminal.

Examples

  • After the image is uploaded to Rackspace, the script only needs to echo a JSON-encoded response.

    Blog text (2)
  • You can just and just echo something straight into that file and it appears over here on on this file.

  • But you forgot to echo my last line!

    Blog text (17)
  • Let's echo 23, see what's up.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • It goes like this: if $# -ne 2 then echo "it's not equal to 2."

    Blog text (16)
  • The script will echo the user's input to the console for review.

  • In the shell, you can use the command to echo a message on the screen.

Synonyms

to output
vsto echo
  • Specialized
5 3.6

To make a computer send data or results

writes a specific text string to the standard console in scripts

Antonyms

176 4.8

To stop public protest by force or by people in power

Compounds

echo chamber
  • Literature
9 7.3

A place where people only hear opinions like their own

echo chamber
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A room made to make sound bounce and create echoes

echo sounder
  • Specialized
1 5.3

A device that measures water depth by sending sound and timing the echo

radar echo
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A signal that bounces back to a radio device and shows where something is

echo sounding
  • Specialized
6.1

A way to find water depth and underwater objects by sending sound and measuring its return time

Surface Forms

echo infinitive
echoed past
echoed past participle
echoing present participle
echoes third person singular

Etymology

In computing the echo command 'repeats' text to the screen, a modern use of the old idea of something being sent back or shown again.