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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1929 a short usually high-pitched sound (as from a horn or an electronic device) that serves as a signal or warning II. verb Date: 1936 transitive verb to cause (as a horn) to sound intransitive verb 1. to sound a horn 2. to make a beep

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 the sound of a motor-car horn. 2 any similar high-pitched noise. --v.intr. emit a beep. Derivatives: beeper n. Etymology: imit.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(beeps, beeping, beeped) 1. A beep is a short, loud sound like that made by a car horn or a telephone answering machine. N-COUNT; SOUND 2. If something such as a horn beeps, or you beep it, it makes a short, harsh sound. A cellular telephone beeped... He beeped the horn. VERB: V, V n

Moby Thesaurus

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