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# beep

«beep» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short, high sound made by a machine, like a microwave…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a beep, beeps); verb (beep, beeps, beeped, beeping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beep is a short, high sound made by a machine, like a microwave, a car horn or a phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#m1)

2) To beep means to make this sound, or to sound a car horn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a beep is a signal: the microwave is done, a smoke alarm battery is low, a door is left open. In safety lessons a beeping smoke alarm must be told to an adult. Phrases: «beep the horn», «a beeping sound», «leave a message after the beep».

### examples

- The microwave beeped when the popcorn was ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x1)
- Dad beeped the horn to say goodbye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x2)
- Please leave a message after the beep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x3)
- The smoke alarm keeps beeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x4)
- My watch beeps every hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x5)
- The scanner beeped at the checkout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x6)
- The truck beeps when it reverses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. A single chirp every minute from a smoke alarm usually means the battery is low; tell an adult to change it, don't just take it out. Similar sounds: buzz, ping, honk (car horn).

### In the corpora

- ["Bleeping" stands for any swear word, as if the word had been covered by a beep on TV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/14/)
- [A car beeping at you or a bump on the head from the sofa teaches the same lesson the hard way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/13/)
- [In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/6/)
- [Hospital machines monitor heart rate, oxygen and breathing and beep when something needs checking, which is often not urgent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/33-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent/14/)
- [Hospital machines help sick people breathe, eat or keep track of their heartbeat; the beeps let nurses watch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/59-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beep» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beep/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.