beep vs siren

beep

verb
  • To sound (something that makes a beep). 

  • To contact (someone via) a pager device. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To produce a beep. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts 

noun
  • A message sent to a pager device. 

  • A short, electronically produced tone. 

  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 

siren

verb
  • To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren. 

noun
  • A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895). 

  • An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances. 

  • A dangerously seductive woman. 

  • A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae. 

  • A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia. 

  • One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. 

  • One who sings sweetly and charms. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina. 

  • A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879). 

  • An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones. 

adj
  • Relating to or like a siren. 

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