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Definition: Beep |
BeepNoun1. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning. Verb1. Make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared". 2. Call, summon, or alert with a beeper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Beep n.,v. Syn. feep. This term is techspeak under MS-DOS and OS/2, and seems to be generally preferred among micro hobbyists. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BEEP | English | Building Energy Estimating Programme | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BeepSynonyms: bleep (n), blare (v), claxon (v), honk (v), toot (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beep |
| Specialty definitions using "beep": power-on self-test. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beep" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (beep). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hi leave a message after the beep. If you want to send me a fax then buy me a fax machine (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott) Please leave a message at the beep. I must be out or I'd pick up the phone (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) When the apocalypse comes beep me. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) One beep for yes, two beeps for no. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beep beep minica (1973) The Beep Bopper (1967) Just Plane Beep (1965) To Beep or Not to Beep (1963) Beep Prepared (1961) | |
Song Titles | Beep Beep (performing artist: The Playmates) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Beep beep. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cash counter counting out bills and finishing with a high-pitched beep. | | Long car horn beep. |
| High-pitched long beep. | | Beep of a moped horn. |
| Squeaky toy beep. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | While the patient tries to warm his hands, the monitor provides feedback either on a gauge that shows the temperature reading or by emitting a sound or beep that increases in intensity as the temperature increases. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Beep" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.37% of the time. "Beep" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.37% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.47% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beep": beep-beep-beep-beep-beep, beep-voiced. | |
Ending with "beep": bee-bee-bee-bee-beep, beep-beep-beep-beep-beep. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
beep | 117 | beep motherboard | 12 |
beep code | 95 | award beep code | 10 |
beep test | 48 | beep error | 10 |
beep bios code | 43 | award beep bios | 9 |
beep knowledge system | 40 | beep code motherboard | 9 |
smart beep | 31 | beep commercial smart | 9 |
beep beep | 30 | beep download test | 9 |
award beep bios code | 28 | beep beep song | 9 |
beep bios | 28 | ami beep code | 9 |
computer beep | 25 | ami beep bios code | 8 |
beep eu | 24 | beep code error | 8 |
beep eu.org | 21 | 911 beep | 8 |
beep call | 18 | beep code compaq | 8 |
america beep | 18 | beep call lyrics | 8 |
computer beep code | 17 | beep beep toot toot | 7 |
beep post | 15 | beep free | 6 |
beep wav | 14 | roger beep | 6 |
beep sound | 13 | asus beep code | 6 |
beep code post | 12 | beep eu.net | 5 |
beep bios code phoenix | 12 | beep code pc | 5 |
beep beep lyrics toot toot | 5 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "beep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bip, bëj pip, bëj bip. (various references) | |
Arabic | زمارة, صفير (pip, sibilance, singing, toot, whistling), صفر (blow, cipher, hiss, hoot, naught, nil, nought, pipe, toot, tootle, wheeze, whistle, yellow, zero), صوت زامور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | звуча като клаксон, правя бип. (various references) | |
Chinese | """". (various references) | |
Czech | zatroubení (blast), troubit (blare, honk, hoot), pípnutí (bleep, chirp), pípat (cheep, peep, pipe), houkat (honk, toot). (various references) | |
Finnish | piippausääni, piippaus. (various references) | |
French | bip (beeper). (various references) | |
German | akustisches Zeichen. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pityegés, pityeg valakinek, gépi eredetû ismétlõ hang. (various references) | |
Italian | bip (bleep), trillo (chirr, quaver, ring, roulade, trill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 発信音 (tone), 'ンディー語 (beach, beach coat, beach house, beach parasol, beach umbrella, beach volleyball, beach wear, beacon, beads, beagle, beaker, beam, beam antenna, beam rider, beast, beat, beat generation, Beatles, beaver, bee, beef, beefalo, beefsteak, beer, beet, Hindi, Hindustan, hint, Venus, virus, viva). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ープ , はっし"お" (tone). (various references) | |
Korean | 발 음. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bipar, bip (bleep). (various references) | |
Russian | сигналить (honk), сигнал (bells, call, horn, signal), телеметрический сигнал, гудеть гудок (honk, toot), гудеть (boom, din, hoot, ping, tooted), небольшой джип. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvučni signal (buzzer), trubljenje (hoot, toot, tootle, trumpet), trubiti (blare, blow, honk, toot, tootle). (various references) | |
Spanish | bip, señal vocal en aparatos, pito (gasper, pipe, prick, whistle), pitar (toot, whistle). (various references) | |
Swedish | pipa (cheep, chirp, Fife, peep, pipe, squeak, tube, tweet, wheeze, whimper, whistle), pip (beak, bleep, cheep, chirp, lip, peep, snout, spout, squeak, tweet, whistle). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงเตือนแหลมสั้น, ทำเสียงเตือนแหลมสั้น. (various references) | |
Turkish | bip sesi (bleep, pip), bip (bleep, pip), uyarı sesi, korna sesi (honk, hoot, peep, toot), korna çalmak (hoot, sound the horn, toot), düt, düdük sesi (hoot, whistle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гудіти (boom, buzz, hoot, zoom), гудок (buzzer, hoot, hooter, horn, siren, toot), джип (jeep). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beep": beeped, beeper, beepers, beeping, beeps. (additional references) | |
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"Beep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abep, baep, bape, bapp, barep, batep, beap, beeb, beec, beeem, beel, beem, beev, beew, beey, beez, bejel, bep, bepe, berp, besp, beue, bexe, biop, bipe, bipp, blep, bopeep, boup, eep, Mbep, Meep, sbep, veep, yeep. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beep" (pronounced bē"p) |
| 2 | -ē" p | asleep, bleep, bopeep, cheap, creep, deep, heap, jeep, keep, leap, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, sweep, veep, weep. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-p" | |
-1 letter: bee, pee. | |
-2 letters: be, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-p" | |
+1 letter: beeps, bleep, plebe. | |
+2 letters: beeped, beeper, beleap, beweep, bewept, bleeps, bopeep, ephebe, ephebi, pebble, phoebe, plebes. | |
+3 letters: barkeep, bedrape, beepers, beeping, beleaps, beleapt, benempt, bespake, bespeak, bespoke, beweeps, bleeped, bopeeps, ephebes, ephebic, epheboi, ephebos, ephebus, pebbled, pebbles, peebeen, phoebes, prebake, prebend, reprobe. | |
+4 letters: abampere, barkeeps, beanpole, bebopper, becapped, becarpet, bediaper, bedimple, bedplate, bedraped, bedrapes, beleaped, bepimple, bespeaks, bespoken, bespouse, bespread, besprent, bicepses, bleeping, bumpered, expiable, geoprobe, helpable, keepable, openable, operable, pebblier, peccable, peebeens, peekaboo, peelable, pegboxes, periblem, plebeian, preamble, prebaked, prebakes, prebends, prebless, purebred, reapable, reprobed, reprobes, superber, teenybop, typeable, upbearer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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