Weep vs Beep - What's the difference?
weep | beep |
To cry; shed tears.
* Longfellow
To lament; to complain.
* Bible, Numbers xi. 13
(medicine, of a, wound or sore) To produce secretions.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
* Shakespeare
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
(obsolete) To weep over; to bewail.
* Prior
The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
A short, electronically produced tone.
To sound (something that makes a beep).
To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
To produce a beep.
Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
As verbs the difference between weep and beep
is that weep is to cry; shed tears while beep is to sound (something that makes a beep).As nouns the difference between weep and beep
is that weep is the lapwing; the wipe while beep is the sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.weep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- They wept together in silence.
- They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
- The blood weeps from my heart.
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster / Of having lost her favorite dove.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* weep in one's beer * weepy * weeping willowEtymology 2
Imitative of its cry.beep
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (electronically produced ): bleepVerb
(en verb)- The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
- ''Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
- ''Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.