beep

Wikipedia

See also веер

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēp, IPA: /biːp/, X-SAMPA: /bi:p/

  Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

beep (plural beeps)

1. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
2. A short, electronically produced tone.

Translations

the sound of a the horn of a car

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘟嘟響 (cmn), 嘟嘟响 (cmn) (dūdū xiǎng), 嘟嘟聲 (cmn), 嘟嘟声 (cmn) (dūdū shēng), 嘟 (cmn) (dū), 嘟嘟 (cmn) (dūdū)

• Finnish: tööttäys (fi)
• Swedish: tut (sv)

• Russian: гудок (ru) (gudók) m, клаксон (ru) (klaksón) m, сигнал (ru) (signál) m
• Vietnamese: bíp (vi)

electronically produced tone

• Finnish: piippaus (fi)
• French: bip (fr)
• Japanese: ビープ音 (ja) (bīpu-on), 発信音 (ja) (はっしんおん, hasshin'on)

• Persian: بیپ (fa) (bip)
• Russian: гудок (ru) (gudók) m, сигнал (ru) (signál) m
• Swedish: tut (sv), pip (sv)

Synonyms

• (electronically produced): bleep

Verb

beep (third-person singular simple present beeps, present participle beeping, simple past and past participle beeped)

1. (transitive) To sound (something that makes a beep).

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

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

   Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.

3. (intransitive) To produce a beep.

Synonyms

• (sound (a car horn)): honk, hoot, sound, toot
• to have intercourse with, have sex with, fuck

See also

• pip