Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects.
- intransitive verb To evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief.
- intransitive verb To correspond closely or harmoniously.
- intransitive verb To cause to resound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To resound.
- In electricity, to respond to electric oscillations of a given frequency. Used transitively in the extract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
vibrate orsound , especially in response to another vibration. - verb To have an
effect orimpact ; toinfluence ; toengender support .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be received or understood
- verb sound with resonance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Don’t add any other words; just let the phrase resonate as broadly and as powerfully as possible.
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Don’t add any other words; just let the phrase resonate as broadly and as powerfully as possible.
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Don’t add any other words; just let the phrase resonate as broadly and as powerfully as possible.
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Don’t add any other words; just let the phrase resonate as broadly and as powerfully as possible.
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For the heroine's despair comes from feeling not that she will never fall "under another influence," but, less passively (and less idiomatically), that she will never "vibrate" (as in resonate) to such an influence — in the full sense of sympathetic vibration.
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Cornel West is one such intellectual that knows the meaning of the word “hope,” and his word resonate with me.
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The work and many of the thoughts expressed it in resonate with fascism, and particularly the Italian variant – and this resonance seems more closely linked to Strauss than to Xenophon.
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One comment in particular would resonate from the gallery Sunday each time Retief Goosen made bogey during the final round of the U.S.
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The movie really did "resonate" - gave me goosebumps at times.
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The movie really did "resonate" - gave me goosebumps at times.
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