blip
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Is blip a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.Examples: "When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again."; "At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away."; "Due to the fact that she’d explored over 30% of the forest enemies were now displayed as blips on her map."
2. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.Examples: "There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment."; "As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium."; "Barack Obama had become exasperated by the propensity of the party establishment to panic at every psephological blip."broadly
3. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.Examples: "When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips."; "Although the wiki-like editing capabilities of Google Wave represent a valuable feature, there is some debate about whether participants should edit other participants' blips or their own blips."Internethistorical
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To make a short beep sound.Examples: "The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through."intransitive
2. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.Examples: "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator."; "And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk."; "The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated. […] A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life, but instead of Melissa's radiant face there was a man in obvious security garb staring at him."informalintransitive
3. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).Examples: "[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape."Synonyms: bleeptransitive
4. (automotive) To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
Definition source: Wiktionary