Buzzer vs Bzzt - What's the difference?
buzzer | bzzt |
One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
* Shakespeare
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A device that makes a buzzing sound.
:* If you think you know the answer to the question, hit the buzzer as fast as you can.
A police badge.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 28:
(onomatopoeia) The sound of a buzzer or of electricity.
* 1921 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook
* 2000 , Linda P Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Baby minds: brain-building games your baby will love
* 2001 , Keith R A DeCandido, Rockne S O'Bannon, Farscape: House of Cards
As a noun buzzer
is one who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.As an interjection bzzt is
the sound of a buzzer or of electricity.buzzer
English
(wikipedia buzzer)Noun
(en noun)- And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father's death.
- I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.
bzzt
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- The buzzer on Matthew's desk rang violently at this point, bzzt -bzzt...
- You sing him a new song, bzzt' — a connection is made. You tickle his toes, ' bzzt — there goes another.
- Pressing an imaginary button, Crichton said, "Bzzt ! Wrong answer."