blip

Plural: blips

Noun

• a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption
  • "the market had one bad blip today"
  • "you can't react to the day-to-day blips"
  • "renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales"
• a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
• A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
• A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
• A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
• An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.

Verb

Verb Forms: blipped, blipping, blips

• To remove a short segment of sound from a recording.
• To make a short beep sound.
• To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
• Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
• To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.

Examples

• He tried to blip out the groans of frustration after a bad tile draw in Words With Friends.
• The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.

Synonyms

pip, radar target, bleep

Anagrams of blip