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queeps | null |

As a verb queeps

is (queep).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

queeps

English

Verb

(head)
  • (queep)

    • queep

    English

    Etymology 1

    Imitative.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.
  • * 1918 , Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California
    • In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep , queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .
  • * 1929 , Henry Williamson, The Pathway, Volume 4
    • They followed her at a rapid tiny waddle, crying queep -queep-queep.
  • The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit a "queep" sound.
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , authorlink=Harlan Ellison , title=Along the Scenic Route , magazine=Adam , last=Ellison , first=Harlan , year=1969 , month=August }}
  • *:She started to speak, but the peek queeped , and she studded it on.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , authorlink=Diane Duane , title=Intellivore , last=Duane , first=Diane , year=2000 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Jqhk8zEK1SMC&lpg=PA183&dq=queeped&pg=PA184
  • v=onepage&q=queeped&f=false
    • , page=183 , publisher=Simon and Schuster}}
  • *:The computer queeped softly and then said, “Ship's systems ....”
  • *{{quote-book
    • , authorlink=Cory Doctorow , last=Doctorow , first=Cory , title=Makers , year=2009 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=wpC2KwbGAJwC&lpg=PA22&dq=queeped&pg=PA22
  • v=onepage&q=queeped&f=false
    • , page=22 , publisher=Macmillan}}
  • *:“This used to be where the contractors kept their heavy equipment,” Lester rumbled, aiming a car door remote at the door, which queeped and opened.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

  • (military, slang, US) Non-flying duties, typically paperwork, that are undesirable to pilots.
    • Why in the hell isn’t there someone else to do all this queep ?!
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year=1997 , monthday=07/28 , author=Kurt Bjorn citation , title=Re: USAF Low Morale Confirmed!!! , id=01bc9b7f$570616e0$0100000a@pyroware.flash.net , group=alt.aviation.safety,rec.aviation.military,alt.disasters.aviation }}
    It isn't how well you fly, it's who you know and how well you perform your queep ground job.
  • *{{quote-usenet
    • , year=2001 , monthday=09/06 , author=Zaprass , title=Re: Tiny U.S. planes spy as GIs avoid danger , id=3B9765DD.MD-1.4.4.Zaprass@nospam.com , group=rec.aviation.military citation }}
  • *:Still, the above is a true reflection of statistical promotion rates in the context of our current queep -biased system.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , title=Christian Fighter Pilot Is Not an Oxymoron , last=Dowty , first=Jonathan , year=2007 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=a_vlsspX0vwC&lpg=PA20&dq=queep%20pilot&pg=PA20
  • v=onepage&q=queep%20pilot&f=false
    • , page=20}}
  • *:What fighter pilots do is fly, and that they love, they have little love or tolerance for queep , a term for all paperwork and related jobs that keep a pilot out of the cockpit.
  • *{{quote-book
    • , title=Sharing Orion , last=Goldstein , first=David , year=2010 , page=87 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=QbMzLqyBWLgC&lpg=PA87&dq=queep&pg=PA87
  • v=onepage&q=queep&f=false
    • , publisher=AuthorHouse}}
  • *:Besides, if you're not flying, your whole world is going to consist of nothing but office queep .
  • *{{quote-magazine
    • , magazine=Wingman , title=Safety Culture , author=Anonymous , year=2012 , monthday=1/1 , page=32 , pageurl=http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=16&sid=da987f96-1bec-4ecb-b484-69d1dbef035a%40sessionmgr15&hid=23 }}
  • *:The stigma that surrounds a safety office and its staff is often that of naysayers or un-cool nerds. We’re the crushers of fun or sultans of queep in many squadrons, but there's no place for that kind of culture in the safety world.
    • Usage notes
    Commonly used in the United States Air Force pilot community.

    Etymology 3

    Short for "quad-sweep", a rowing boat/event.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A event, with 2 scullers and 2 sweepers per shell.

    • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----