Bleed vs Bleep - What's the difference?
bleed | bleep |
(of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
:If her nose bleeds try to use ice.
To let or draw blood from an animal.
To take large amounts of money from.
To steadily lose (something vital).
:The company was bleeding talent.
(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
(obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
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*:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
(copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
:He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
:A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
*Alexander Pope
*:For me the balm shall bleed .
(phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
:Labialization bleeds palatalization.
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
(euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
(music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
* 2005 , "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.gothic )
* 2005 , "oldgoth", Theaving(SIC) Goths'' (on newsgroup ''uk.people.gothic )
To emit one or more bleeps.
To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
In transitive terms the difference between bleed and bleep
is that bleed is to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids while bleep is to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.As verbs the difference between bleed and bleep
is that bleed is to lose blood through an injured blood vessel while bleep is to emit one or more bleeps.As nouns the difference between bleed and bleep
is that bleed is an incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia while bleep is a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.bleed
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Derived terms
* bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed whiteNoun
(en noun)bleep
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(en noun)- What the bleep are you doing?
- See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep . I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
- A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.
