See blip on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2003, Brett Grodeck, The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series), New York, N.Y.: Marlowe, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2010 February 28, Gary Younge, “The Tea Party is a dynamic force, but it is still unruly and incoherent”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-16:",
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"ref": "2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2010, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51:",
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"text": "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nWe 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."
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"ref": "2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155:",
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"ref": "2003, Brett Grodeck, The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series), New York, N.Y.: Marlowe, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010 February 28, Gary Younge, “The Tea Party is a dynamic force, but it is still unruly and incoherent”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-16:",
"text": "Barack Obama had become exasperated by the propensity of the party establishment to panic at every psephological blip.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "[…] 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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal."
],
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[
"brief",
"brief#Adjective"
],
[
"minor",
"minor#Adjective"
],
[
"aberration",
"aberration"
],
[
"deviation",
"deviation"
],
[
"expected",
"expected"
],
[
"normal",
"normal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Internet"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Andres Ferrate, Google Wave: Up and Running, page 87:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"message",
"message"
],
[
"document",
"document"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"historical"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/blɪp/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg/En-uk-blip.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-blip.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-au-blip.ogg/En-au-blip.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-au-blip.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪp"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parpelleig"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"word": "bod na obrazovce"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"word": "välke"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ponto"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "parpadeo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small dot registered on electronic equipment",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "blipp"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "short sound of a single pitch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "(krátké) pípnutí"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "short sound of a single pitch",
"word": "piippaus"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "short sound of a single pitch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pitido"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "short sound of a single pitch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "blipp"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "short sound of a single pitch",
"word": "pip"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "brief deviation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "výkyv"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "brief deviation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "výchylka"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1"
],
"word": "blip"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪp",
"Rhymes:English/ɪp/1 syllable",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Sounds"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "blip out"
},
{
"word": "blipper"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Onomatopoeic.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blips",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blipping",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blipped",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blipped",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a short beep sound."
],
"links": [
[
"beep",
"beep"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make a short beep sound."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nWe 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."
},
{
"ref": "2001, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN:",
"text": "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, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Craig Lansford, Stephen Chamberlin, “Scene III”, in Broken Angel (Tales from Salome; 1; The Sorian Chronicles; book I), rev. edition, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:",
"text": "The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated. […] A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life, but instead of Melissa's radiant face there was a man in obvious security garb staring at him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion."
],
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"abruptly",
"abruptly"
],
[
"imply",
"imply"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155:",
"text": "[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)"
],
"links": [
[
"bleep",
"bleep#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)"
],
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{
"extra": "to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "bleep"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Automotive"
],
"glosses": [
"To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin."
],
"links": [
[
"automotive",
"automotive"
],
[
"throttle",
"throttle"
],
[
"downshift",
"downshift"
],
[
"gear",
"gear"
],
[
"transition",
"transition"
],
[
"wheelspin",
"wheelspin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(automotive) To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin."
],
"topics": [
"automotive",
"transport",
"vehicles"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/blɪp/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"audio": "en-uk-blip.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg/En-uk-blip.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg"
},
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"audio": "en-au-blip.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-au-blip.ogg/En-au-blip.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-au-blip.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪp"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1"
],
"word": "blip"
}
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