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单词 blip
释义

blip

1 of 2

noun

ˈblip How to pronounce blip (audio)
1
: a trace on a display screen (such as an oscilloscope)
especially : a spot on a radar screen
2
: a short crisp sound
3
: an interruption of the sound received in a radio or television program or occurring in a recording as a result of blipping
4
: a transient sharp movement up or down (as of a quantity commonly shown on a graph)
5
: something relatively small or inconsequential within a larger context
made only a blip on the political scene

blip

2 of 2

verb

blipped; blipping

transitive verb

: to remove (recorded sound) from a recording so that there is an interruption of the sound in the reproduction
a censor blipped the swear words

Example Sentences

Noun The approaching ship appeared as a blip on the screen. the blips, buzzes, and bleeps of a video game The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The poor yields are likely more than a one-year blip, as climate change alters weather patterns in agriculturally important parts of the country, contributing to higher food prices that experts don't see ebbing any time soon. Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022 Jakob Dixon arrived in Lexington on June 12 for a Kentucky football camp as merely a blip on the Wildcats' recruiting radar. The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2022 Trappe is little more than a blip on Route 50′s west side, about halfway between Easton and Cambridge. Scott Dance, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022 Still, the current mini-surge looks like a blip on the radar compared to some previous waves - especially the record-shattering omicron surge. Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2022 The town, mine shafts, and other remnants of a bygone era feel like a mere blip in Nevada’s long timeline next to the park’s ancient geologic formations and awe-inspiring petroglyphs. Sunset Magazine, 9 May 2022 What to some was a mere news blip was a crisis for Priest. Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022 Globally, archaeocyathan reefs only persisted for around 20 million years, a mere blip in oceanic history. Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021 Our multimodal consumer analysis shows that this behavior is not a mere blip; the intense online media consumption is resetting consumer expectations and reshaping the content consumption experience. Forrester, Forbes, 28 June 2021
Verb
Earlier this year, the transponders that will blip data back to Earth were found to be faulty and had to be repaired. Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021 The little black and white boxes that blip into view are telemetry blocks – an artifact from compressing the image and sending it back down to Earth. Mike Wehner, BGR, 17 May 2021 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that inflation may blip up a bit, due to the economy’s reopening, then settle down. Larry Light, Forbes, 15 May 2021 And as independent filmmakers blipped off the map, acting roles for women became few and far between, while producing and directing roles all but disappeared. Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020 Instead of the Britpop of his long-running band Pulp, Cocker (now billing himself as Jarv Is) surrounds himself with hazy keyboards and blipping sequencers; a four-on-the-floor beat sometimes surfaces only to disappear under mournful chords. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020 Excluding defense, durable goods orders blipped up just 0.1%. Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019 My phones have been buzzing and vibrating, blipping and chirping since the news was confirmed that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash Sunday in Southern California at the age of 41. Greg Moore, azcentral, 26 Jan. 2020 And utilizing the paddle shifters delivers a pleasingly raucous note — blipping the throttle during downshifts — when set in the Sport+ setting of the Drive Mode Select knob. Arv Voss, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

imitative

First Known Use

Noun

1945, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1968, in the meaning defined above

blip

verb

as in to bleep

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • bleep
  • clip
  • wipe out
  • erase
  • obliterate
  • excise
  • blot out
  • eradicate
  • remove
  • expunge
  • rub out
  • efface
  • cut
  • censor
  • expurgate
  • delete
  • bowdlerize
  • redact
  • crop
  • launder
  • cancel
  • dele
  • silence
  • shorten
  • red-pencil
  • elide
  • kill
  • root (out)
  • cross (out)
  • strike (out)
  • scratch (out)
  • abbreviate
  • blue-pencil
  • clean (up)
  • black out
  • repress
  • stroke (out)
  • suppress
  • edit (out)
  • x (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • stet
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