blip
/blɪp/
blip noun: a small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
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Noun
blip (plural blips)
- A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
- When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.1984 August, Frederick [McCarthy] Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN
- At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.2004, Asaf Degani, “The Grounding of the Royal Majesty”, in Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces beyond 2001, New York, N.Y.; Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111
- A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
- Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end.2000, Ken Norton, Marshall Terrill, Mike Fitzgerald, “Prologue”, in Going the Distance, Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 2
- The most popular event is Joel's computer-based biofeedback game. […] The goal is to move the balloons skyward while avoiding the rockets that the computer shoots toward the balloons. You dodge the rockets by consciously adjusting your muscle tone between relaxation and tension. […] The little...2007, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets, 4th edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 39
- A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
- 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, Brett Grodeck, The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series), New York, N.Y.: Marlowe, →ISBN
- 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.2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, →ISBN
- An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
- When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips.2010, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51
- Although the wiki-like editing capabilities of Google Wave represent a valuable feature, there is some debate about whether participants should edit other participants' blips or their own blips.2010, Andres Ferrate, Google Wave: Up and Running, page 87
Verb
blip (third-person singular simple present blips, present participle blipping, simple past and past participle blipped)
- To make a short beep sound.
- The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.
- To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
- We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- 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, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped...2001, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN
- Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
- […] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape.2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155
- Synonyms:
- bleep
- To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
blip meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
blip in Hindi
- ब्लिप करें
blip in Bengali
- ব্লিপ
blip in Telugu
- బ్లిప్, బ్లిప్ చేయండి
blip in Malayalam
- ബ്ലിപ്പ്
More languagesFewer languages
- blip in Kannada
- ಬ್ಲಿಪ್, ಬ್ಲಿಪ್ ಮಾಡಿ
- blip in Punjabi
- ਬਲਿਪ
- blip in Gujarati
- બ્લીપ કરો, બ્લીપ
- blip in Odia
- ବ୍ଲିପ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ
- blip in Nepali
- ब्लिप, ब्लिप गर्नुहोस्, ब्लिप गर्न
Examples of blip in a sentence
- Due to the fact that she’d explored over 30% of the forest enemies were now displayed as blips on her map.2020 February 14, Black Lyte [pseudonym], “A Gift of Savagery”, in Don’t F*ck with the Healer! (Vanta Fantasies; 2), ASIN B084TS14PL:
- You dodge the rockets by consciously adjusting your muscle tone between relaxation and tension. […] The little "blip" sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player.2007, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets, 4th edition, Berkeley...
- Barack Obama had become exasperated by the propensity of the party establishment to panic at every psephological blip.2010 February 28, Gary Younge, “The Tea Party is a dynamic force, but it is still unruly and incoherent”, in The Guardian, London, archived...
- […] and therefore it’s too soon to say if the supposed “long peace” we’ve been enjoying since the end of the second world war is a blip or a sustained trend.2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of blip
Forms of blip
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blips |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blips |
| present participle | blipping |
| past participle | blipped |
| past | blipped |
Origin of blip
Onomatopoeic.
Words formed from blip
Phrases with blip
Words that rhyme with blip
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Questions about blip
- What does blip mean?
- Blip means a small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
- What is blip in Hindi?
- Blip in Hindi is ब्लिप करें. See Blip meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use blip in a sentence?
- Due to the fact that she’d explored over 30% of the forest enemies were now displayed as blips on her map.
- What part of speech is blip?
- Blip can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce blip?
- Blip is pronounced /blɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of blip?
- The plural of blip is blips.
Words near blip in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blip (page history and authors); blip (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blip (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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