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Bleep vs Blee - What's the difference?

bleep | blee |

As nouns the difference between bleep and blee

is that bleep is a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device while blee is (rare|usually|poetic) colour, hue.

As a verb bleep

is to emit one or more bleeps.

bleep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • What the bleep are you doing?
  • (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 )
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , "oldgoth", Theaving(SIC) Goths'' (on newsgroup ''uk.people.gothic )
  • 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)
  • To emit one or more bleeps.
  • To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
  • Derived terms

    * bleeper * bleep out * bleepy

    blee

    English

    Noun

  • (rare, usually, poetic) Colour, hue.
  • * 1931 , Padraic Colum, "Before The Fair" in Lascelles Abercrombie, New English poems: a miscellany of contemporary verse never before published:
  • [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee . [...]
  • * 1920 , Anonymous, "To Marie" in Carolyn Wells, The Book of Humorous Verse :
  • *:When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim/Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,/And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim/Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,/Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,/And the voice of the bally-molay/Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee /From the willy-wad over the way. [...]
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
  • *:[...] Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee , with brow beaming brilliancy [...]
  • *1850 , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning :
  • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee , — Toll slowly.
  • Complexion.
  • Form, texture, consistency.
  • * 1898 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia :
  • [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]
  • General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
  • * That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby
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