The difference between Echo and Ghost

When used as nouns, echo means a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer, whereas ghost means the spirit.

When used as verbs, echo means to reflect off a surface and return, whereas ghost means to haunt.

check bellow for the other definitions of Echo and Ghost

  1. Echo as a noun:

    A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

  2. Echo as a noun:

    An utterance repeating what has just been said.

  3. Echo as a noun (poetry):

    A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.

  4. Echo as a noun (figurative):

    Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

  5. Echo as a noun (computing):

    The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

  6. Echo as a noun:

    The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

  7. Echo as a noun (whist, bridge):

    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 signalled for trumps.

  8. Echo as a noun (whist, bridge):

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

  9. Echo as a noun (medicine, colloquial):

    Echocardiography or echocardiogram.

  1. Echo as a verb (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive):

    To reflect off a surface and return.

  2. Echo as a verb (transitive):

    To reflect back (a sound).

  3. Echo as a verb (by extension, transitive):

    To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

    Examples:

    "Sid echoed his father's point of view."

  4. Echo as a verb (computing, transitive):

    To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.

  1. Ghost as a noun (dated):

    The spirit; the soul of man.

  2. Ghost as a noun:

    The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death

    Examples:

    "Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt."

  3. Ghost as a noun:

    Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image

    Examples:

    "not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea"

  4. Ghost as a noun:

    A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

  5. Ghost as a noun:

    An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.

  6. Ghost as a noun:

    A ghostwriter.

  7. Ghost as a noun (Internet):

    An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

  8. Ghost as a noun (computing):

    An image of a file or hard disk.

  9. Ghost as a noun (theatre):

    An understudy.

  10. Ghost as a noun (espionage):

    A covert (and deniable) agent.

  11. Ghost as a noun:

    The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.

  12. Ghost as a noun (video games):

    An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.

  13. Ghost as a noun:

    A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See .

  14. Ghost as a noun (attributive, in names of species):

    White or .

    Examples:

    "[[ghost slug]]; [[ghostberry]]; [[ghostflower]]; [[ghost crab]]; [[ghost bat]]"

  15. Ghost as a noun (attributive, in names of species):

    Transparent or .

    Examples:

    "[[ghost ant]]; [[ghost catfish]]; [[ghost nipper]]; [[ghost nudibranch]]"

  16. Ghost as a noun (attributive):

    Abandoned.

    Examples:

    "[[ghost town]]; [[ghost net]]; [[ghost ramp]]; [[ghost ship]]"

  17. Ghost as a noun (attributive):

    The of.

    Examples:

    "[[ghost cell]]; [[ghost crater]]; [[ghost image]]"

  18. Ghost as a noun (attributive):

    Perceived or listed but not .

    Examples:

    "[[ghost pain]]; [[ghost cellphone vibration]]; [[ghost island]]; [[ghost voter]]"

  19. Ghost as a noun (attributive):

    Of , or nature.

    Examples:

    "[[ghost rocket]]; [[ghost deer]]; [[ghost cat]]"

  20. Ghost as a noun (attributive):

    Substitute.

    Examples:

    "[[ghost writer]]; ghost band; ghost singer"

  1. Ghost as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.

  2. Ghost as a verb (obsolete):

    To die; to expire.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir Philip Sidney"

  3. Ghost as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To ghostwrite.

  4. Ghost as a verb (nautical):

    To sail seemingly without wind.

  5. Ghost as a verb (computing):

    To copy a file or hard drive image.

  6. Ghost as a verb (GUI):

    To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.

  7. Ghost as a verb (internet, transitive):

    To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

  8. Ghost as a verb:

    To appear without warning; to move quickly and quietly; to slip.

  9. Ghost as a verb:

    To kill.

  10. Ghost as a verb (slang):

    To break up with someone without warning or explanation; to perform an act of .

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