different between bleep vs bloop

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)

1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
3. (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

   What the bleep are you doing?

4. (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
   • 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)

     See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.

   • 2005, "oldgoth", Theaving^[sic] Goths (on newsgroup uk.people.gothic)

     A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.

Translations

Verb

bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)

1. (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.

   The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.

2. (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

   Synonym: blip

Derived terms

• bleeper
• bleep out
• bleepy

Translations

Anagrams

• plebe

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

1. (baseball) To make a hit just beyond the infield.
2. (informal) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
3. (television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
   • 1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography (page 96)

     Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

Derived terms

• unblooped

Noun

bloop (plural bloops)

1. (informal) A low-pitched beeping sound.

   The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.