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Definition: Blip |
BlipNoun1. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption; "the market had one bad blip today"; "you can't react to the day-to-day blips"; "renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales". 2. A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A spot of light or deflection of the trace on a radarscope, loran indicator, or the like, caused by the received signal, as from a reflecting object. Also called a pip or echo . (references) |
Computing | An optical mark, usually rectangular, within the recording area, and usually below the image on a roll of microfilm used for counting images or frames automatically. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | The luminous image of an object on a visual display. (references) |
Mining | Echo trace on radar or sonar indicator screen. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Momentary deflection or change of intensity on a cathode-ray tube display, e. g. produced by the signal from a responsor. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 |
BLIP | English | Base language input program | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BlipSynonyms: pip (n), radar target (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blip |
| Specialty definitions using "blip": F-display ♦ G-display ♦ K-display ♦ L-display, leapfrogging ♦ M-display. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blip" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (pip). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Sonar blip. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Do not allow this little blip in our market to turn you against capitalism. |
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| "Blip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.05% of the time. "Blip" is used about 76 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) | 96.05% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blip": radar blip ♦ radar blip identification. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
blip radiohead | 117 |
blip blop | 62 |
blip | 46 |
blip blop cheat | 15 |
blip blop n | 5 |
blip download radiohead | 4 |
ball blip blop steel | 4 |
blip blop download | 4 |
blip blop et | 2 |
blip colonel | 2 |
blip blop game | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نقطة ضوء في الرادار, صورة على شاشة. (various references) | |
Chinese | 物体光点. (various references) | |
Danish | blip, billedmærke (document mark, search arrow), tællemærke, søgemarkering (document mark, search arrow), momentane glimt. (various references) | |
Dutch | blipcode (document mark, search arrow), blip (document mark, search arrow), echo op een beeldscherm. (various references) | |
Farsi | تصویری برروی صفحه رادار. (various references) | |
Finnish | kaikumerkki. (various references) | |
French | spot, réponse, pavé optique, marque de recherche. (various references) | |
German | Markierung (marking, indentation, Mark, marker, sentinel), Leuchtzeichen, Echozeichen (blips, pip). (various references) | |
Greek | μπλίπ, αναγνωριστικός ήχος, οπτικό στίγμα εντοπισμού (document mark, search arrow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | radarjel (radar blip), rövid éles hang. (various references) | |
Italian | tacca di reperimento (document mark, search arrow), risposta (reply, answer, response). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resposta (answer, reply, response). (various references) | |
Russian | метка документа, изображение на экране радара. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prikaz na ekranu radara. (various references) | |
Spanish | se¿¿nal óptica, respuesta de identificación, punto luminoso en un radar, marca de recuperación (document mark, search arrow), eco (echo). (various references) | |
Swedish | svarssignal (answer back). (various references) | |
Turkish | vurma (dash, hit, knock, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, pounding, shoot, strike, swat), pat (aster, bang, flump, phut, plump, pop, thud), görüntü (display, image, outlook, picture, semblance, sight, spectacle, view), çarpma (beat, brunt, bump, impact, jolt, lash, multiplication, percussion, stroke). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blip": blipped, blipping, blips. (additional references) | |
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"Blip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bil, bilip, bilopha, bilx, bip, bipm, bipp, bki, blap, blasp, bleap, blep, blewp, bli, blid, blig, blih, blik, blim, blipe, blippy, blir, blit, bliv, blix, Bliz, blop, blup, bzip, glip, Klip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blip" (pronounced bli"p) |
| 3 | -l i" p | clip, flip, lip, slip. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-p" | |
-1 letter: lib, lip. | |
-2 letters: bi, li, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-p" | |
+1 letter: blimp, blips, pibal. | |
+2 letters: blimps, pibals, public, upboil. | |
+3 letters: bipedal, biplane, bipolar, blipped, buildup, bumpily, epiboly, parboil, piebald, pillbox, pinball, pliable, pliably, plumbic, potboil, prebill, preboil, publics, publish, upboils, upbuild, upbuilt, upclimb. | |
+4 letters: abapical, basophil, bedimple, bepimple, bioplasm, biphenyl, biplanes, bleeping, blimpish, blipping, blooping, blowpipe, bonspiel, buildups, bullwhip, dippable, epiblast, epibolic, expiable, lapsible, panbroil, parboils, partible, passible, pebblier, pebbling, periblem, philabeg, philibeg, piebalds, pinballs, pitiable, pitiably, playbill, plebeian, plumbing, plumbism, polybrid, possible, possibly, potboils, prebills, preboils, publican, publicly, purblind, republic, rippable, spitball, tippable, upboiled, upbuilds, upclimbs. | |
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