verb
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To emit one or more bleeps.
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The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
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To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
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noun
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A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
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A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
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(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
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An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
verb
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To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
Examples of blip in a Sentence
I am a mere blip in the history of the University.
I think our booking agent had a momentary blip.
A slight blip in Q3 last year, every other quarter has seen growth.
Therefore, with respect to Maths, 2002 can perhaps be regarded as a " statistical blip " on a gently falling trend.
Weather Bureau experts have informed me it is not possible to get a radar blip from this type of balloon.
Now try the above steps but change gear down just after the throttle blip.
Nigel Bird adds " After getting the carbs in balance, blip the throttle.
I then found that the second trill key had a slight ' blip ' in its action.
There was a minor blip in March due to a power cut.
Looking further along the edge of the horizon I saw another blip, and then another, and altogether I counted four of them.
Those who park on double yellow lines with a single curb blip, double curb blip will receive a parking ticket.
In the grand, cosmic scale of things, I was merely a blip, hardly worth bothering about.
Senior issues touch us all, whether directly, through caring for loved ones, or as a blip on our own horizon.
In 1955, however, Santa first appeared as a blip on radar screens when an advertisement for Sears Roebuck & Co. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, published a telephone number that children could call and speak to Santa.