(1) That’s the kind of paranoia Domestic Drone Countermeasures (DDC) is hoping to tap into with its new personal drone detection system (PDDS) Kickstarter project – a black box that promises to go beep when a drone flies within 15m of its sensors.
(2) So all "conversations" would effectively run like this (I'll translate as we go along): You: Beep ("PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE.")
(3) Almost 30 minutes after the protest was due to end taxis still lined the roads around Charing Cross, beeping their horns continuously.
(4) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
(5) Instead of R-wave synchronous beeping tones during deactivation, double beeping tones were heard.
(6) The BEEP program has relevance for pediatric practice in demonstrating a component of health care with greater diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for educational competence in young children.
(7) Ireland wasn’t always this way: cars beeping in approval at our giant rainbow flags.
(8) The black box, which claims to beep when a non-military drone flies within 15 metres of it, is available on the crowd funding site Kickstarter.
(9) Instead of having to think of an amusing Facebook update to impress your friends, each of whom is so consumed with agonising over their own update they're only pretending to pay attention anyway, you simply push a button and transmit a little beep.
(10) Google Play (@GooglePlay) First R2D2 was all like "Beep boop beep" and then #BB8 was all like "Beep beep boop."
(11) Only a handful of demonstrators are visible, but drivers beep their horns in support as they drive past.
(12) Film-buyers flit around, desperately trying to discover which films are beeping on their rivals' radar, and to establish what is being bought and by whom.
(13) It begins with a slow beep that fades in over a minute and a half.
(14) The only sound is the chirping of late-summer cicadas and the occasional beep of a Geiger counter.
(15) The main disadvantage of the technique is the necessity of interruption of the patient's physical activity at the moment of recording indicated by an audible "beep".
(16) I'd favour a short, electronic beep, not unlike the noise emitted each time Pac-Man eats a dot.
(17) Photograph: AP Nevertheless, celebrations in the Gambia began as soon as Barrow had made his speech, with drivers beeping their horns in elation and people leaning out of car windows, waving their arms, in scenes reminiscent of the outpouring of joy after the election result was announced.
(18) Yet nobody testing the system seems to have tried generating the beep in the operator's ear by the electronic equivalent of a coin flip.
(19) A policewoman hops to the side, to avoid blocking our shot, and there's a chorus of clicks, whirrs and focus beeps.
(20) Mark wrote to me to say: ‘[beep] off, you look like an alien egg’.
Hoot
Definition:
(v. i.) To cry out or shout in contempt.
(v. i.) To make the peculiar cry of an owl.
(v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
(n.) A derisive cry or shout.
(n.) The cry of an owl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just a whisper between us, its about time some of the old guard got a hoot under their perch.
(2) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the first minister accused Cameron of not caring "two hoots about the NHS in Wales" and using it to make political points.
(3) You couldn’t make it up, could you?” He hoots with derisive laughter.
(4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
(5) In the meantime, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are awash with people forwarding the information, sharing links to foreign websites, expressing opinions – and utterly ignoring those who are making pathetic attempts to turn back the clock to a time before WikiLeaks, and before bloggers who don't give two hoots about the censor."
(6) But not one female Galloway voter I spoke to in Bradford this week seemed to give two hoots about what he gets up to in his private life.
(7) Quite splendidly, she shows no sign of giving a hoot.
(8) There is almost no question that doesn't earn a wail or a hoot.
(9) The Labour leader even forgot to mention the deficit in his conference speech , the Conservatives will hoot – tax cuts at the ready – so Labour can’t be trusted with the nation’s finances.
(10) Then, he took me to task for things other people had told me about him, hooting uproariously at the notion that any of them was in a position to talk about him.
(11) Purves said she was not upset with the Telegraph and would not want to censor anybody, adding that Marchessini is a "hoot" who writes her endless rude letters.
(12) He talks about "helping people now while putting public finances on track for the future" and "providing support and protection to families and businesses when they need it most", but a reference to "living within our means" sparks hooting from the Tories.
(13) But Fleur is also a novelist, and one day her manuscript of Warrender Chase goes missing ... Sir Quentin's selectively incontinent aged mother is an unforgettable creation; Fleur herself (whose resilient refrain is "I went on my way, rejoicing") is a hoot.
(14) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
(15) Questions concerning which coach had meant most to Smith was hooted off court by all except the conscientious interpreters, who went through question and formal reply in all three languages.
(16) I don’t want to get strong, but I want to be definitive about that.” “The recommendation was made by people who didn’t give a hoot about politics,” added Comey.
(17) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(18) she hoots at her gulping husband, woggle quivering with horror.
(19) Meanwhile, Howard Shapiro of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes "One Man, Two Guvnors is the hoot of the season" .
(20) We know that some Lib Dem backbenchers will defy whatever instructions they are given and vote against, but if the frontbench are voting with the government, then it doesn't matter a hoot how many of their backbenchers defy the whips.