English
Etymology
onomatopoetic|Onomatopoetic.
Pronunciation
audio|en-uk-blip.ogg|Audio (UK)
Noun
en-noun
- A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
#* 1985: Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol
#*: When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
#* 2004: Asaf Degani, Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
#*: At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.
- A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
#* 2000: Ken Norton, Ken Norton
#*: Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip There was that annoying noise again.
#* 2002: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
#*: The little “blip” sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. “Blip” “Damn!” “Blip” “Damn!”
- context|after definition 1 A brief aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
#* 2003: Brett Grodeck, The First Year - HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
#*: 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.
#* 2003: Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench
#*: As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.
Translations
;radar
Spanish: parpadeo m
;sound
Spanish: pitido m
Verb
en-verb|blipp|ing
- transitive To skip over or ignore (with out).
#* 1990: Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge
#*: If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.
#* 1996: John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake
#*: He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.
- intransitive To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
#* 2003: Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
#*: And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now�staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway....
#* 2005: Craig Lansford, Tales from Salome: Broken Angel
#*: The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated.... A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life.
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