Coccyx: 1615, from Gk. kokkyx "cuckoo" from kokku, like the bird's Eng. name echoic of its cry, so called by ancient Gk. physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
I remember as she said his name, I had one of those echoic moments. From Wordnik.com. [With Love and Laughter, John Ritter] Reference
Superstition and Revelation is as echoic -- as allusive, if you will -- as any text in Hemans. From Wordnik.com. [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference
I've been exploring an alternative origin of this word, not from an echoic origin, but rather as a possible Semitic loan. From Wordnik.com. [The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"] Reference
The confusion of sound which our critic complains of is not to be remedied merely by silencing the chorus of echoic voices. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
In a bat's case, I have speculated, it might be surfaces of different echoic properties or textures, perhaps red for shiny, blue for velvety, green for abrasive. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
In Stage 1, sensations immediately received (without requiring any focused attention) by the primary sensory cortex are initially stored in the sensory memory “store” (ultra-short-term store, echoic/iconic memory). From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
Even when they become conventionalized, echoic words are suspect. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference
Guardian sound of the South Seas it is, the hushed, echoic roar of a. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
For a very long time, echoic. org has been "the epitome of procrastination". From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
"New World," and "Dancing with Girls from China" are counterpointed with their varied and particular echoic effects, I figure. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot] Reference
Certainly the former style is far easier to swallow than the latter - the faithful pogo and batter out metronomic handclaps with the echoic tempos. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
(Meca ` Mecca '; Ceca literally ` mint (the plant)' but more likely just an echoic nonsense word prob. a rhyming reduplicative); similar to from pillar to post. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
Sensory memories are what a Georgia Tech professor says exist for each sensory channel: iconic, echoic and haptic for visual, aural or tactile stimuli, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [News & Record Article Feed] Reference
The instrumentation throughout the record has a lilting quality similar to Dylan's 'Pat Garret' soundtrack: slow, almost lazy guitars drifting over the echoic vocals. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
Since the present results show that the behavior of echoic memory can be understood through change-N1, change-N1 would be a useful tool to investigate memory systems. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Here we used an auditory change-related N1 subcomponent (change-N1) of event-related brain potentials to investigate cortical mechanisms underlying change detection and echoic memory. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The present findings suggest that temporal representation of echoic memory is non-linear and Weber-Fechner law holds for the automatic cortical response to sound changes within a suprathreshold range. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Along the narrative trail-a deceptively simple yarn about a neurotic, mid-life man obsessed with a woman whose stolen wallet he finds-we are peppered with fleeting shots of a stolen purse, a fate-goosing found wallet, a fatefully unzipped fly, and, yes, echoic shots of the wild grasses which grow outside of humanity's control. From Wordnik.com. [The Santa Barbara Independent stories] Reference
From O.Fr. quanart, probably echoic of a duck’s quack. m. child. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Gass's own stress falls not on the negative trailing off of the non-echoic "one" (with its slant reprise of the opening. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'] Reference
(sometimes attacked by all 3 members simultaneously), and cool, echoic vocal harmonies set the foundation of an hour long journey into the ideal soundtrack for the perfect, chill summer evening. From Wordnik.com. [Muzzle of Bees] Reference
echoic/iconic, 85. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
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