Bleep vs Beep - What's the difference?
bleep | beep | Synonyms |
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.
The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
A short, electronically produced tone.
To sound (something that makes a beep).
To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
To produce a beep.
Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
Beep is a synonym of bleep.
In intransitive terms the difference between bleep and beep
is that bleep is to emit one or more bleeps while beep is to produce a beep.In transitive terms the difference between bleep and beep
is that bleep is to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps while beep is telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.bleep
English
Noun
(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.
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* bleeper * bleep out * bleepyAnagrams
* English onomatopoeiasbeep
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (electronically produced ): bleepVerb
(en verb)- The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
- ''Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
- ''Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
