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# bleep

«bleep» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short, high electronic sound, like from a machine or phone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bleep, bleeps); verb (bleep, bleeps, bleeped, bleeping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A short, high electronic sound, like from a machine or phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#m1)

2) To make such a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#m2)

3) To cover a rude word on TV or radio with a bleep sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#m3)

4) (UK) To call someone, such as a doctor, using a pager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: machines, microwaves and alarms bleep. On TV, swear words are bleeped out. In stories it shows a robot or machine. Phrases: bleep out, bleep-bleep.

### examples

- The microwave gave a bleep when the food was ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x1)
- The heart monitor bleeped steadily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x2)
- They bleeped out the rude word on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x3)
- My watch bleeps every hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x4)
- The nurse bleeped the doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x5)
- What the bleep was that? (a polite way to avoid swearing) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleep/#x6)

### note

Similar: beep. «Bleep» is often used to replace a swear word in speech. In maths problems, «it bleeps every 5 seconds» is a rate to count with.

### 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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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