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  • 11echo — ech|o1 [ ekou ] verb ** 1. ) intransitive if a noise echoes, it is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns: echo around/through: Her question echoed around the room. echo across: The howl of a coyote echoed across the canyon. a ) if …

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  • 12echo — 1 verb present tense echoespast tense and past participle echoed 1 (intransitive often + adv/prep) if a sound echoes, you hear it again because it was made near something such as a wall or hill: The thunder echoed over the mountains. | Our shouts …

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  • 13china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 14China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 15international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 16Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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  • 17echo — [[t]e̱koʊ[/t]] ♦♦♦ echoes, echoing, echoed 1) N COUNT: oft N of n An echo is a sound which is caused by a noise being reflected off a surface such as a wall. He listened and heard nothing but the echoes of his own voice dying in the cave. 2) VERB …

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  • 18Echo — 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. [1913 Webster] Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. [1913 Webster] The… …

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  • 19Echoes — 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. [1913 Webster] Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 20Echoing — 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. [1913 Webster] Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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