piippaus — meaning in English

English meaning

• beep noun A short, high-pitched electronic sound.
• bleep noun A short, high-pitched electronic sound.
• blip noun A small, brief signal or dot, such as one seen on a radar screen.
• pip noun A small hard seed found in fruits such as apples, oranges, or grapes.

Senses

piippaus is used for these senses in English:

• beep A short, electronically produced tone.
• bleep A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
• blip A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
• pip One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.

beep — full definition

1. noun A short, high-pitched electronic sound.
2. verb To make a short electronic sound, or to sound a car horn.

bleep — full definition

1. noun A short, high-pitched electronic sound.
2. verb To censor a word in a broadcast by replacing it with a beeping sound.

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