What's the difference between beep and weep?

Beep


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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’.

Weep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
  • (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
  • () imp. of Weep, for wept.
  • (v. i.) To lament; to complain.
  • (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  • (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
  • (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
  • (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
  • (2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
  • (4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
  • (5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
  • (6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
  • (7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
  • (8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
  • (9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
  • (10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
  • (11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
  • (12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
  • (13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
  • (14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
  • (15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
  • (16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
  • (17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
  • (18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
  • (20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.

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