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Boop vs Beep - What's the difference?

boop | beep |

As nouns the difference between boop and beep

is that boop is a low-pitched beeping sound while beep is the sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

As a verb beep is

to sound (something that makes a beep).

boop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A low-pitched beeping sound.
  • * 1989 , Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
    • When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
  • * 2008 , Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
    • Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, And Ben Allison, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop , and every flick of a drumbeat is in place. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Jon Pareles, title=Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus. }}

    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