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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",
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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": "2001, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company",
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"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",
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"ref": "2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
],
"text": "Audio (RP)"
},
{
"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",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"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 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪp",
"Rhymes:English/ɪp/1 syllable",
"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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{
"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"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",
"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": "quotation"
},
{
"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",
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"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”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"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"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪp"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/En-uk-blip.ogg",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
],
"text": "Audio (RP)"
},
{
"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",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1"
],
"word": "blip"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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