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Beef vs Beep - What's the difference?

beef | beep |

In intransitive terms the difference between beef and beep

is that beef is to complain while beep is to produce a beep.

In transitive terms the difference between beef and beep

is that beef is to add weight or strength to, usually as beef up while beep is telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

As an adjective beef

is being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

beef

English

(wikipedia beef)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
    • I love eating beef .
  • # The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
  • lean finely textured beef
  • boneless lean beef trimmings
  • (uncountable) Bovine animals.
  • *
  • A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
    • Do you want to raise beeves ?
  • a grudge (+ with )
    • He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
    He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
  • (slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
    • Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
    We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
  • (slang, uncountable) essence, content
    • The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

    Synonyms

    * (meat of a cow)

    Hyponyms

    * (meat of a cow) veal

    Derived terms

    * beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?

    Related terms

    *

    See also

    * beefwood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain.
  • *
  • To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
    • Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
  • (slang) To fart.
    • Ugh, who just beefed in here?
  • (slang) To feud.
    • Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
    • David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

    Derived terms

    * beef up * beef out

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
    • We bought three beef calves this morning.
  • Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
    • beef farms
    beef country
  • Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
    • beef stew

    Related terms

    * beefy

    Anagrams

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    beep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
  • A short, electronically produced tone.

    • Synonyms

    * (electronically produced ): bleep

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sound (something that makes a beep).
    • The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
  • To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
    • ''Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
  • To produce a beep.
  • Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
    • ''Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.

    Synonyms

    * (sound (a car horn) ): honk, hoot, sound, toot * to have intercourse with, have sex with, fuck * (telephoning ): flash

    See also

    * pip English onomatopoeias