Sleepable vs Bleepable - What's the difference?
sleepable | bleepable |
Suitable for sleeping.
* 1922 , Walter Raleigh, The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh 1879 to 1922
* 1998 , Charles Rosen, Phil Jackson, The Cockroach Basketball League
* 2002 , John Kretschmer, Used Boat Notebook
(informal) Suitable for bleeping (censoring by replacement with a tone), i.e. foul-mouthed.
* 1998 , SPIN magazine (volume 14, number 5, May 1998)
* 2001 , Indianapolis Monthly (volume 25, number 1, September 2001)
* 2009 , Jon Canfield, Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide
As adjectives the difference between sleepable and bleepable
is that sleepable is suitable for sleeping while bleepable is suitable for bleeping (censoring by replacement with a tone), i.e. foul-mouthed.sleepable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It is cool here, or at least sleepable , but Baghdad, I am told, is different. I was advised to do my sleeping in advance.
- Once we reach the airport the players dump their bags at the American Airlines counter and hasten to the departure gate to secure the most sleepable spaces.
- The saloon includes long, sleepable settees and a fold-out table.
bleepable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ...competing with Alanis Morissette for the most bleepable alt-rock single ("Closer") of the decade.
- ...Mora unleashed the famous "Mora meltdown," in which he blasted his team, his coaches and himself in largely bleepable terms. A day later he resigned.
- The first bleepable moment occurs at 00;00;06;07 (6 seconds and 7 frames in). Press the spacebar to pause here.