beep

beep

See also: веер

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how old is this word?”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēp, IPA^(key): /biːp/

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• 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.
3. A message sent to a pager device.
   • 1992, Ice Cube (lyrics and music), “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:

     I got a beep from Kym, and she can fuck all night.

Synonyms

• (electronically produced): bleep; see also Thesaurus:beep

Derived terms

• beep test
• roger beep

 

Translations

the sound of a the horn of a car

Chinese: Mandarin: 嘟嘟響／嘟嘟响 (dūdū xiǎng), 嘟嘟聲／嘟嘟声 (dūdū shēng), 嘟 (zh) (dū), 嘟嘟 (zh) (dūdū) Finnish: tööttäys French: pouet (fr) German: Hupen (de) n, Tuten n Hungarian: tütűt Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: biib Romanian: tit (ro) n Russian: гудо́к (ru) m (gudók), клаксо́н (ru) m (klaksón), сигна́л (ru) m (signál) Swedish: tut (sv) Thai: ปี๊น (bpíin) Turkish: düt Vietnamese: bíp

electronically produced tone

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: pípnutí n, zapípání n Esperanto: pepo Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: piippaus (fi) French: bip (fr) German: Piepen (de) n Japanese: ビープ音 (bīpu-on), 発信音 (はっしんおん, hasshin'on) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: pīhō, pīpi Persian: بیپ‎ (bip) Romanian: bip n Russian: гудо́к (ru) m (gudók), сигна́л (ru) m (signál) Spanish: pitido (es) m Swedish: tut (sv), pip (sv) Thai: ปี๊ด (bpíit), ตี๊ด (dtíit)

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, informal, euphemistic) 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.
4. (transitive) To contact (someone via) a pager device.
   • 1981, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (U.S.), volume 253, page 1060:

     Burkat told him on the evening of Sunday, July 1, that Kritch “would have to terminate Mr. Waugaman on Monday when he came in, for not answering the beeper.” […] However, when considered in light of […] Justak’s assertion in Waugaman’s termination notice that Respondent had unsuccessfully tried to “beep” him at 6 p.m. […]

   • 2013, Tonshea Carroll Moore and Lanette Zavala, Wedding Vows Under Fire‎, page 138:

     His first notion was to call her on her mobile phone device. After all, she had neither called nor beeped him to tell him any plans in advance.

5. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

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

   • 2008, Deborah Eden, The Destroyer‎, page 157:

     He should have been here at two-fifteen the way he drove. I beeped him, but he didn't ring back.

Synonyms

• (sound (a car horn)): honk, hoot, sound, toot
• (to have intercourse with): sleep with, fuck; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (telephoning): flash

Translations

to produce a beep sound

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: pípat impf, zapípat pf, pípnout pf, troubit (cs) impf, zatroubit pf Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: piipata (fi) French: biper (fr) German: piepen (de), hupen (de) (car), tuten (de) (horn) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: pīhō Romanian: bipăi Russian: please add this translation if you can Thai: ร้องปี้ด, ร้องตี้ด, บีบแตร, กดแตร

See also

• pip

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English beep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bip/

Noun

beep n (plural beep-uri)

1. beep

Declension

Declension of beep

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) beep	beep-ul	(niște) beep-uri	beep-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) beep	beep-ului	(unor) beep-uri	beep-urilor
vocative	beep-ule		beep-urilor

References

• beep in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)