Boop vs Roop - What's the difference?
boop | roop |
A low-pitched beeping sound.
* 1989 , Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
* 2008 , Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, And Ben Allison, title=New CDs, work=New York Times
, passage=Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop , and every flick of a drumbeat is in place. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Jon Pareles, title=Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre, work=New York Times
, passage=Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus. }}
As nouns the difference between boop and roop
is that boop is a low-pitched beeping sound while roop is a cry; a call.As a verb roop is
to cry; shout or roop can be (usually with up) to make hoarse.boop
English
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(en noun)- When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
- Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
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