Blip vs Bleep - What's the difference?
blip | bleep |
A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
* 1985 , Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol
* 2004 , Asaf Degani, Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
* 2000 , Ken Norton, Going the Distance
* 2002 , Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
* 2003 , Brett Grodeck, The First Year - HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
* 2003 , Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench
To skip over or ignore (with out ).
* 1990 , Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge
* 1996 , John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake
To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
* 2003 , Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
* 2005 , Craig Lansford, Tales from Salome: Broken Angel
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 blip and bleep
is that blip is to skip over or ignore (with out) while bleep is to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.In intransitive terms the difference between blip and bleep
is that blip is to change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion while bleep is to emit one or more bleeps.blip
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
- At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.
- Blip ..Blip..Blip..Blip There was that annoying noise again.
- The little “blip ” sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. “Blip” “Damn!” “Blip” “Damn!”
- There's a chance this is just a viral blip , an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.
- As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.
Verb
(en-verb)- If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.
- He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.
- And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway....
- The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated.... A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life.
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.
