The Finance Minister said the July rise in inflation was only a blip.
Source: tatoeba (4111045)
Blip
//blɪp//
Synonyms for "blip" (12 found)
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More general
3 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
16 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- parpelleig noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
Czech
4 entries- (krátké) pípnutí noun (short sound of a single pitch)
- bod na obrazovce noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
- výchylka noun (brief deviation)
- výkyv noun (brief deviation)
Finnish
2 entries- piippaus noun (short sound of a single pitch)
- välke noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
Portuguese
1 entries- ponto noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
Spanish
4 entries- bache noun (brief deviation)
- parpadeo noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
- pitido noun (short sound of a single pitch)
- señal luminosa noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
Swedish
3 entries- blipp noun (small dot registered on electronic equipment)
- blipp noun (short sound of a single pitch)
- pip noun (short sound of a single pitch)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
It's just a blip on a screen.
Source: tatoeba (6580457)
There wasn’t positive proof, but one of the Coast Guard planes on regular patrol the previous Saturday night had picked up a strange blip on its radar screen.
Source: tatoeba (11987076)
When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.