blip
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5.9
- noun
- /blɪp/
- Specialized
:
eco
- The Enterprise showed up as a red blip in the middle of the diagram.
Examples
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I have an unidentified radar blip.
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The airplane showed up as a small blip on the radar before landing.
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- Got a blip on my screen here.
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Consider it a blip on the screen.
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I suspect that was the red blip near the far right of your graph.
Blog text (2) -
On the screen: the red blip representing the sub is headed right toward a building.
Fiction book (1996) -
We looked at the screen and could see the little blip moving through the quadrants.
Fiction book (2002) -
Watching the TV screen, Anne Marie sees one of the red blips change direction and head toward her.
Fiction book (1993) -
They're all being detected as one little blip on that detector screen.
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The telltale blips had appeared on her sensor viewer as if from nowhere.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
297
1.0
A small round mark on a surface, for example on a card or dice
228
1.0
A very small round mark on a surface, like a speck of paint
66
1.3
A very small spot or amount of something
33
8.6
A small mark on things like dice or cards
24
4.3
A very small spot that stands out on a surface
1
5.3
A mark on a radar screen that shows the position of a ship or plane
1
6.0
A signal that bounces back to a radio device and shows where something is
Antonyms
How Bright
- Specialized
11
5.9
228
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blip began as the name for the small bright dot you saw on early radar screens when the machine found something; the mark was sudden and tiny. So a blip today can mean that little spot of light on a screen that shows where an object is.