Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reverberate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Reverberated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverberating}.]
1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo,
as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.
--Shak.
2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as,
flame is reverberated in a furnace.
3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] ``Reverberated
into glass.'' --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, v. i.
1. To resound; to echo.
2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of
light; to be echoed, as sound.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reverberate \Re*ver"ber*ate\, a. [L. reverberatus, p. p. of
reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare
to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod.]
1. Reverberant. [Obs.] ``The reverberate hills.'' --Shak.
2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] --Drayton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reverberate
v 1: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
[syn: {resound}, {echo}, {ring}]
2: sound in sympathy [syn: {consonate}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.