[syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
2. call, summon, or alert with a beeper;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
beep
n 1: a short high tone produced as a signal or warning [syn:
beep, bleep]
v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn:
honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
2: call, summon, or alert with a beeper
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "beep":
bay, bell, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow the horn, bray, bugle,
clarion, fanfare, flourish of trumpets, honk, peal, pipe, shriek,
sound, sound a tattoo, sound taps, squeal, tantara, tantarara,
taps, tarantara, tattoo, toot, tootle, trumpet, trumpet blast,
trumpet call, tweedle, whistle, wind
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
BEEP
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (RFC 3080)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
beep
n.,v.
Syn. feep. This term is techspeak under MS-DOS/Windows and OS/2, and
seems to be generally preferred among micro hobbyists.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
bell
beep
BEL
control-G
g-bell
ASCII 7, ASCII mnemonic "BEL", the character
code which prodces a standard audibile warning from the
computer or terminal. In the teletype days it really was a
bell, since the advent of the VDU it is more likely to be a
sound sample (e.g. the sound of a bell) played through a
loudspeaker.
Also called "G-bell", because it is typed as Control-G.
The term "beep" is preferred among some microcomputer
hobbyists.
Compare feep, visible bell.
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