beep

5 definitions found

beep - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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

beep - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  bell
  beep
  BEL
  control-G
  g-bell
  
     <character> 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.
  
     (1997-04-08)
  

beep - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.
  

beep - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  BEEP
         Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (RFC 3080)
         

beep - 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