beep

«beep» in Mova's school dictionary: a short, high sound made by a machine, like a microwave… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a beep, beeps); verb (beep, beeps, beeped, beeping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A beep is a short, high sound made by a machine, like a microwave, a car horn or a phone. tree →

2) To beep means to make this sound, or to sound a car horn. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life a beep is a signal: the microwave is done, a smoke alarm battery is low, a door is left open. In safety lessons a beeping smoke alarm must be told to an adult. Phrases: «beep the horn», «a beeping sound», «leave a message after the beep».

examples

• The microwave beeped when the popcorn was ready. tree →
• Dad beeped the horn to say goodbye. tree →
• Please leave a message after the beep. tree →
• The smoke alarm keeps beeping. tree →
• My watch beeps every hour. tree →
• The scanner beeped at the checkout. tree →
• The truck beeps when it reverses. tree →

note

Regular verb. A single chirp every minute from a smoke alarm usually means the battery is low; tell an adult to change it, don't just take it out. Similar sounds: buzz, ping, honk (car horn).

In the corpora

• "Bleeping" stands for any swear word, as if the word had been covered by a beep on TV.
• A car beeping at you or a bump on the head from the sofa teaches the same lesson the hard way.
• In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.
• Hospital machines monitor heart rate, oxygen and breathing and beep when something needs checking, which is often not urgent.
• Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beep» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.