RESONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resonate mean? 

• RESONATE (verb)
  The verb RESONATE has 2 senses:

1. sound with resonance

2. be received or understood

  Familiarity information: RESONATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESONATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resonate    ... he / she / it resonates   
Past simple: resonated   
Past participle: resonated   
-ing form: resonating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sound with resonance

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

resonate; vibrate

Context example:

The sound resonates well in this theater

Hypernyms (to "resonate" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resonate"):

make vibrant sounds; purr (indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The woods resonate with many kinds of birds

Derivation:

resonance (the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities)

resonance (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant)

resonance (a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system)

resonator (any system that resonates)

resonator (a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be received or understood

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

come across; resonate

Cause:

understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resonate"):

strike a chord (create an emotional response)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s Adjective

Derivation:

resonance (a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people)

 Context examples 

If this need to spend more does not resonate with you, slow down spending anyway during the first three weeks until you can see the lay of the land.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The scientist characterized how waves resonate throughout the bridge, causing small movements that, when exaggerated, look like wobbles on a plate of gelatin.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

At the frequencies used in adult echocardiography (2-5 MHZ) the microspheres resonate, which further increases the extent of ultrasound scattering and reflection.

(Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

If this does not resonate with you, then you may have a secret that you’d like to keep under wraps.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is clear that getting your home situation just right has become a near-obsession, and if this resonates with you, your timing is ideal.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If this does not resonate, you may be using this new moon of November 26 to talk seriously with a business partner, agent, publicist, or another professional about making your alliance official with paperwork you can sign soon, perhaps November 29, when Mercury and Saturn are in cheerful support of your new venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This December 25/26 eclipse will fall in your twelfth house, and if my earlier examples of how the eclipse might affect you didn’t resonate with you, it may be that the eclipse will present a new secret project that you will begin work on that you will not be able to tell anyone about—not until it is ready to be launched to the world.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)