The difference between Beep and Bleep

When used as nouns, beep means the sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound, whereas bleep means a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

When used as verbs, beep means to sound (something that makes a beep), whereas bleep means to emit one or more bleeps.


check bellow for the other definitions of Beep and Bleep

  1. Beep as a noun:

    The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

  2. Beep as a noun:

    A short, electronically produced tone.

  1. Beep as a verb (transitive):

    To sound (something that makes a beep).

    Examples:

    "The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns."

  2. Beep as a verb (transitive):

    To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts

    Examples:

    "Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers."

  3. Beep as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce a beep.

  4. Beep as a verb (transitive):

    Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

    Examples:

    "Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call."

  1. Bleep as a noun:

    A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

  2. Bleep as a noun (euphemistic):

    Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

    Examples:

    "What the bleep are you doing?"

  3. Bleep as a noun (music, slang, uncountable):

    A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.

  1. Bleep as a verb (intransitive):

    To emit one or more bleeps.

  2. Bleep as a verb (transitive):

    To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

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