bleep

«bleep» in Mova's school dictionary: A short, high electronic sound, like from a machine or phone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bleep, bleeps); verb (bleep, bleeps, bleeped, bleeping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A short, high electronic sound, like from a machine or phone. tree →

2) To make such a sound. tree →

3) To cover a rude word on TV or radio with a bleep sound. tree →

4) (UK) To call someone, such as a doctor, using a pager. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: machines, microwaves and alarms bleep. On TV, swear words are bleeped out. In stories it shows a robot or machine. Phrases: bleep out, bleep-bleep.

examples

• The microwave gave a bleep when the food was ready. tree →
• The heart monitor bleeped steadily. tree →
• They bleeped out the rude word on TV. tree →
• My watch bleeps every hour. tree →
• The nurse bleeped the doctor. tree →
• What the bleep was that? (a polite way to avoid swearing) tree →

note

Similar: beep. «Bleep» is often used to replace a swear word in speech. In maths problems, «it bleeps every 5 seconds» is a rate to count with.

In the corpora

• "Bleeping" stands for any swear word, as if the word had been covered by a beep on TV.

Trees and pragmatics

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