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Rep vs Eep - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between rep and eep

is that rep is   {{clipping|reputation|lang=en}} while eep is a short scream or yelp.

As verbs the difference between rep and eep

is that rep is to represent; to act as a representative for while eep is to vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.

As an abbreviation Rep

is republican.

As an interjection eep is

an expression of surprise or dismay.

rep

English

(wikipedia rep)

Etymology 1

Clippings of various words beginning with "rep".

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable)   .
    • Try not to make it easy for the tabloids to ruin your rep .
  • (weightlifting, countable)   .
    • I get a better bicep workout if I use less weight and more reps .
  • (countable)   .
    • When I requested tickets for Nassau, my rep just put me on hold.
    John Doe is a participant in the House of Rep s.
  • (theater, uncountable)   .
    • She did her time in reps before she made the grade in West End theatre.

    Verb

    (repp)
  • To represent; to act as a representative for.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Hal G. Evarts, title=The Settling of the Sage, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Bentley, the man who repped for Slade, carried the air and the rest joined in. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=November 4, author=Bill Wyman, title=Evanston's New Music Hall/Veruca Salt Grow Up/Schmitsville, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He left to help the Reader set up its national advertising arm, went back to Rolling Stone for five years, repped other magazines, and finally set up his own company, which currently scouts ads for the Atlantic, Spin, Discover, and a publication called Disney Adventures. }}
  • (knitting) repeat
  • * 2011 , Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love (page 44)
    • Rep' neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, ' rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from (reps), misinterpreted as a plural.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
  • * 1923 , Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City
    • Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.

    Anagrams

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    eep

    English

    (wikipedia eep)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
  • * 1993 , Bart's Inner Child [http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F05.html]
    • Hot-dog vendor: “Get him!”
    Bart: “Eep .”
  • * 2000, , Ready, Okay!
    • Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
    “Eep ,” I said.
  • * 2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0738826049&id=1LFb_NU01VgC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22eep+*+said%22&sig=UC6HjuFNxoIPrw7f1drNJwIercc]
    • On the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep ,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short scream or yelp.
  • * 1853 , Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, and John Holmes Agnew (eds.), , page 460,
    • "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."
  • * 1962', Jet Screamer, '''', "' Eep opp ork ah ah! And that means 'I love you'!" (but, according to Elroy Jetson in the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", he says Judy Jetson wrote it for him, "eep opp ork ah-ah" means "meet me tonight")[http://www.tvacres.com/music_songs_jetsons.htm] (Note: this reference is incorrect.)
  • * 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
    • She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep .”

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
  • * 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
    • Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping ” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.
  • * 2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin,” in Athletic Shorts [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0060507837&id=BhSYywd2SqMC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22he+eeps%22&sig=Lp5m2rWEorvsRu5gjHTu4R1bfV4]
    • Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.
  • * 2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0811839907&id=OdDs928s-PwC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=%22she+eeped%22&sig=mtJl10KCTmZxASjLdTwzUg_V3a0]
    • Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped , dropped my arm, and fled for her life.

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