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Definition of blip in English: blipnounPlural blips blɪpblɪp 1An unexpected, minor, and typically temporary deviation from a general trend. the Chancellor dismissed rising inflation as a blip Example sentencesExamples - Another explanation, and this one is more reassuring, is that people aren't responding to the temporary inflation blip caused by higher petrol prices.
- Yet they are but minor blips in an otherwise beautiful musical landscape which really ought to be discovered.
- Time will tell if this is just a statistical anomaly or a blip in a downward trend.
- Universities across the country are expecting a dip in the number of applicants next year, although this is expected to be a temporary blip.
- Should there be a correction, though, it most likely will only be a minor blip on the downward plunging trend lines.
- They're just a minor blip in the general scheme of things.
- But road statistics are volatile, and experts say the 16 per cent drop in deaths last year could prove to be a blip rather than a trend.
- But I hope this is just a blip, a temporary moment of blurred decision, out-weighed by my usual clarity.
- It has been there for hundreds of years, and a temporary blip in the finances is no excuse for throwing it all away.
- Consumer credit may introduce temporary blips in the economy, but it is not a secure building block.
- It's easy to dismiss the jump in inflation as a temporary blip.
- Is it a permanent rebound or just a temporary blip?
- The drop last year is likely to be a small blip in a general upward trend.
- You are looking for general, overall upward trends, not short-term blips.
- I am very happy, the temporary blip of sadness I felt the other day has long passed…
- It puts in perspective some of the temporary blips in that relationship.
- He won't be very pleased about being marked down but someone as talented as him will treat it as a minor blip.
- The combination was lethal, but I just dismissed it as a temporary blip at the time.
- Let's hope it's just a temporary blip in a smooth operation.
- It looks like the situation in London is little more than a temporary blip, as property prices continue to rise across the UK.
2A very short high-pitched sound made by an electronic device. computer games can drive you crazy with their blips and bleeps Example sentencesExamples - A blip of noise signals contact, then a low, droning hiss fills the speakers before the music begins.
- Is the future to be filled with soft glitchy vocals over clicks, blips and bleeps?
- Or they could take their chances in the street with the taxis, zooming madly, beeping their horns in staccato blips as warnings.
- Eventually, the song peaks at a crescendo and dies away into atmospheric buzzes and computer blips.
- A blip sounded off signaling the entry of an intruder.
- He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative.
- Vocals are tucked in the back, submerged in reverb as blips and bleeps and chiming guitars send the whole thing home.
- All their core sounds are here - wispy synthesizer melodies and bleeps and blips.
- Further, the circuitry behind that speaker was equally lacking, as, in most cases, the system could not produce anything beyond the extent of beeps and blips.
- Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle.
- To see him pull off all the blips, bleeps, loops, and hisses using only his vocal cords is definitely something special.
- Warp speed, back to the sounds of 80's pop and those jittery keyboard blips!
- Previous emphasis on speed is now being replaced by ambience laced with moments of electronic blips and beeps, free jazz, noise, no wave and tinges of psychedelia.
- Then a small blip of sound came from the screen and Lucas pulled back.
- Videogames began as a few blips and bleeps racing across a screen.
- In the earliest games, we made do with blips and bleeps; now, we have MP3 soundtracks to rival DVDs, and incidental sounds recorded from real life.
- It lives up to the hype, delivering blips, bleeps and beats.
- No excess noise was audible, and sound flowed continuously, free of blips or other interruptions.
- If you're into funky, minimal blips and bleeps, check these guys out, they are the bomb!
- It was a high-pitched blip that, once again, she never knew the devices were capable of.
- 2.1 A small flashing point of light on a radar screen representing an object.
air traffic controllers watching the blips on their radars Example sentencesExamples - ‘Told you everything would work perfectly,’ Eldon replied as they watched the radar blips disappear.
- The radio wave reflections are essentially no different than airplane blips on a radar screen.
- Learning to identify what the blips on the screen represent can take some time.
- It's like hearing reports from Alaska radar stations of peculiar blips on the screen.
- While we were on the plane with them, they saw two blips on their radar screen.
- The three blips on the radar screen were moving closer and closer to the ambush.
- Imagine looking at the blips on the monitor of an air traffic controller in Las Angeles, multiplying those radar blips by 100-then zooming in on the flight path of a single aircraft.
- The radar operator watched carefully as the blip on his monitor representing the Renegade crawled into the system.
- In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens.
- He failed to see the whole, seeing only the details, which he spotted like blips on a radar screen.
- They watch the blips on the screen representing the planes break into two and fly off.
- A bunch of ‘wacky’ characters watch blips on a radar screen.
verbblipped, blips, blipping blɪpblɪp 1no object (of an electronic device) make a very short high-pitched sound or succession of sounds. big boxes of esoteric electronics hummed and blipped Example sentencesExamples - At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera.
- But it's like saying even with the sound and screen on my television blipping on and off that I can enjoy a show.
- Moments later, the two legendary white paddles appeared onscreen, blipping and blooping the single pixel ball between them.
- Entering her apartment, Kayleigh saw the answering machine light blipping.
- With all the blipping and beeping machines hooked into him, he looked smaller, paler, and frailer than I'd ever seen him before.
- The only reason it blips on my radar at all is the fact that you did it in the context of a western.
- He snickered amusedly and was about to speak up when suddenly, an alert window blipped onto his screen.
- The blipping of her radio collar says she's staying close.
- Just as the much-anticipated commencement of our recovery was to begin, contacts of interest suddenly blipped onto the radar screen, and we were delayed momentarily.
- I swear his brainwave monitor only blipped twice the whole time I was there.
- Fade up to a hospital room, greying white walls, a single bed with a little table beside it and a large TV set in the corner, a cardiac monitor blipping away quietly.
- The lights were dimmed, and there was the cautious, subtle blipping of medical monitoring devices.
- While she worked, she kept looking at her wrist and staring at the blipping screen.
- A second later, another blipping sound greeted her.
- The card is also irritatingly noisy when connected to the GPRS network, making those buzzing and blipping noises your mobile emits when it interferes with another phone.
- As I was working on today's entry our electricity began to blip on and off.
- The blipping laptop beat, layered and echoed phase-guitar strums, ringing vibraphone and wheezing organ that open the song mark this is as mood music, like a soundtrack for a film.
2with object Open (the throttle of a motor vehicle) momentarily. he straddled the bike and blipped the throttle Example sentencesExamples - Clipping the throttle at idle often produced a gap in response before the motor picked up.
- ‘Often I've seen engineers jump in the vehicle, turn the engine on, blip the throttle, then drive off,’ he says.
- But the Aston version is not only quick and jerk free on up-changes; it beautifully blips the throttle on down shifts too.
- Start it up and the engine quickly settles into a menacing mid-range growl, while blipping the throttle makes the exhaust bark.
- You can't even stall it, as the car can cruise round town in sixth gear from just 500 revs and will blip the throttle for you.
- Happy didn't have to think once about the hours of rubbing down and lacquering, he blipped the throttle.
- Twist the key and blip the throttle and the beautiful looking 4.2 V8 roars like a true racer.
Origin Late 19th century (denoting a sudden rap or tap): imitative; the noun sense 'unexpected deviation' dates from the 1970s. Rhymes chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip Definition of blip in US English: blipnounblɪpblip 1An unexpected, minor, and typically temporary deviation from a general trend. an upward blip in house prices Example sentencesExamples - It has been there for hundreds of years, and a temporary blip in the finances is no excuse for throwing it all away.
- Yet they are but minor blips in an otherwise beautiful musical landscape which really ought to be discovered.
- You are looking for general, overall upward trends, not short-term blips.
- It's easy to dismiss the jump in inflation as a temporary blip.
- Let's hope it's just a temporary blip in a smooth operation.
- Another explanation, and this one is more reassuring, is that people aren't responding to the temporary inflation blip caused by higher petrol prices.
- It looks like the situation in London is little more than a temporary blip, as property prices continue to rise across the UK.
- But I hope this is just a blip, a temporary moment of blurred decision, out-weighed by my usual clarity.
- They're just a minor blip in the general scheme of things.
- I am very happy, the temporary blip of sadness I felt the other day has long passed…
- Universities across the country are expecting a dip in the number of applicants next year, although this is expected to be a temporary blip.
- Is it a permanent rebound or just a temporary blip?
- Consumer credit may introduce temporary blips in the economy, but it is not a secure building block.
- The combination was lethal, but I just dismissed it as a temporary blip at the time.
- Time will tell if this is just a statistical anomaly or a blip in a downward trend.
- It puts in perspective some of the temporary blips in that relationship.
- But road statistics are volatile, and experts say the 16 per cent drop in deaths last year could prove to be a blip rather than a trend.
- Should there be a correction, though, it most likely will only be a minor blip on the downward plunging trend lines.
- The drop last year is likely to be a small blip in a general upward trend.
- He won't be very pleased about being marked down but someone as talented as him will treat it as a minor blip.
2A short high-pitched sound made by an electronic device. Example sentencesExamples - Previous emphasis on speed is now being replaced by ambience laced with moments of electronic blips and beeps, free jazz, noise, no wave and tinges of psychedelia.
- A blip of noise signals contact, then a low, droning hiss fills the speakers before the music begins.
- Further, the circuitry behind that speaker was equally lacking, as, in most cases, the system could not produce anything beyond the extent of beeps and blips.
- All their core sounds are here - wispy synthesizer melodies and bleeps and blips.
- It was a high-pitched blip that, once again, she never knew the devices were capable of.
- Vocals are tucked in the back, submerged in reverb as blips and bleeps and chiming guitars send the whole thing home.
- Or they could take their chances in the street with the taxis, zooming madly, beeping their horns in staccato blips as warnings.
- Eventually, the song peaks at a crescendo and dies away into atmospheric buzzes and computer blips.
- Beeps, blips and pings are the everyday sounds that we live with, thanks to our push-button gizmos and fast-paced lifestyle.
- No excess noise was audible, and sound flowed continuously, free of blips or other interruptions.
- Videogames began as a few blips and bleeps racing across a screen.
- In the earliest games, we made do with blips and bleeps; now, we have MP3 soundtracks to rival DVDs, and incidental sounds recorded from real life.
- If you're into funky, minimal blips and bleeps, check these guys out, they are the bomb!
- It lives up to the hype, delivering blips, bleeps and beats.
- He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative.
- Warp speed, back to the sounds of 80's pop and those jittery keyboard blips!
- Then a small blip of sound came from the screen and Lucas pulled back.
- A blip sounded off signaling the entry of an intruder.
- To see him pull off all the blips, bleeps, loops, and hisses using only his vocal cords is definitely something special.
- Is the future to be filled with soft glitchy vocals over clicks, blips and bleeps?
- 2.1 A flashing point of light on a radar screen representing an object, typically accompanied by a high-pitched sound.
Example sentencesExamples - They watch the blips on the screen representing the planes break into two and fly off.
- A bunch of ‘wacky’ characters watch blips on a radar screen.
- While we were on the plane with them, they saw two blips on their radar screen.
- The radar operator watched carefully as the blip on his monitor representing the Renegade crawled into the system.
- Imagine looking at the blips on the monitor of an air traffic controller in Las Angeles, multiplying those radar blips by 100-then zooming in on the flight path of a single aircraft.
- He failed to see the whole, seeing only the details, which he spotted like blips on a radar screen.
- It's like hearing reports from Alaska radar stations of peculiar blips on the screen.
- In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens.
- The three blips on the radar screen were moving closer and closer to the ambush.
- The radio wave reflections are essentially no different than airplane blips on a radar screen.
- ‘Told you everything would work perfectly,’ Eldon replied as they watched the radar blips disappear.
- Learning to identify what the blips on the screen represent can take some time.
verbblɪpblip 1no object (of an electronic device) make a short high-pitched sound or succession of sounds. Example sentencesExamples - I swear his brainwave monitor only blipped twice the whole time I was there.
- The only reason it blips on my radar at all is the fact that you did it in the context of a western.
- Moments later, the two legendary white paddles appeared onscreen, blipping and blooping the single pixel ball between them.
- The lights were dimmed, and there was the cautious, subtle blipping of medical monitoring devices.
- Just as the much-anticipated commencement of our recovery was to begin, contacts of interest suddenly blipped onto the radar screen, and we were delayed momentarily.
- At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera.
- But it's like saying even with the sound and screen on my television blipping on and off that I can enjoy a show.
- The blipping laptop beat, layered and echoed phase-guitar strums, ringing vibraphone and wheezing organ that open the song mark this is as mood music, like a soundtrack for a film.
- The card is also irritatingly noisy when connected to the GPRS network, making those buzzing and blipping noises your mobile emits when it interferes with another phone.
- Entering her apartment, Kayleigh saw the answering machine light blipping.
- The blipping of her radio collar says she's staying close.
- With all the blipping and beeping machines hooked into him, he looked smaller, paler, and frailer than I'd ever seen him before.
- He snickered amusedly and was about to speak up when suddenly, an alert window blipped onto his screen.
- As I was working on today's entry our electricity began to blip on and off.
- A second later, another blipping sound greeted her.
- Fade up to a hospital room, greying white walls, a single bed with a little table beside it and a large TV set in the corner, a cardiac monitor blipping away quietly.
- While she worked, she kept looking at her wrist and staring at the blipping screen.
2with object Open (the throttle of a motor vehicle) momentarily. Example sentencesExamples - You can't even stall it, as the car can cruise round town in sixth gear from just 500 revs and will blip the throttle for you.
- Happy didn't have to think once about the hours of rubbing down and lacquering, he blipped the throttle.
- Twist the key and blip the throttle and the beautiful looking 4.2 V8 roars like a true racer.
- ‘Often I've seen engineers jump in the vehicle, turn the engine on, blip the throttle, then drive off,’ he says.
- Clipping the throttle at idle often produced a gap in response before the motor picked up.
- But the Aston version is not only quick and jerk free on up-changes; it beautifully blips the throttle on down shifts too.
- Start it up and the engine quickly settles into a menacing mid-range growl, while blipping the throttle makes the exhaust bark.
Origin Late 19th century (denoting a sudden rap or tap): imitative; the noun sense ‘unexpected deviation’ dates from the 1970s. |