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"word",
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blip"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Medicine"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To contact someone by pager."
],
"links": [
[
"medicine",
"medicine"
],
[
"pager",
"pager"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine, UK) To contact someone by pager."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbliːp/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-bleep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a3/En-au-bleep.ogg/En-au-bleep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/En-au-bleep.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "pípat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zapípat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"word": "piipata"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"word": "piepen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"word": "piepsen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"word": "biplemek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to emit high-pitched sound",
"word": "bip bip yapmak"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapikivatʹ",
"sense": "to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запикивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapikatʹ",
"sense": "to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "запикать"
}
],
"word": "bleep"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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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