Refine this word faster
Blip
Definitions
- 1 A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
"When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again."
- 2 a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface wordnet
- 3 A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
"Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end."
- 4 a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption wordnet
- 5 A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal. broadly
"There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment."
Show 1 more definition
- 6 An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework. Internet, historical
"When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips."
- 1 To make a short beep sound. intransitive
"The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through."
- 2 To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion. informal, intransitive
"1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator."
- 3 Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”). transitive
"[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape."
- 4 To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Onomatopoeic.
See also for "blip"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: blip