Blip vs Glitch - What's the difference?
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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 problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
(video games) A bug or an exploit.
(music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
(video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
As nouns the difference between blip and glitch
is that blip is a small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen while glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.As verbs the difference between blip and glitch
is that blip is to skip over or ignore (with out) while glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.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.
glitch
English
Noun
(wikipedia glitch) (es)- They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
- Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
Derived terms
* glitchcoreQuotations
* 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.Verb
(es)- My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
- His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.
