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feep
(foldoc) | feep
breedle
/feep/ 1. The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display
terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the
microcomputer world seems to prefer beep).
2. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the
original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that
ring. Alternate forms: beep, "bleep", or just about
anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic
strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer
terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written
approximation yet.) The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at
SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft
(they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or
Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a
Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The
"feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52
Chevy stripping its gears. See also ding.
[Jargon File]
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feep
(jargon) | feep
/feep/
1. n. The soft electronic ‘bell’ sound of a display terminal (except for a
VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep).
2. vi. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original
TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: {
beep}, ‘bleep’, or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff
MacNelly, in his comic strip Shoe, uses the word ‘eep’ for sounds made by
computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written
approximation yet.) The term ‘breedle’ was sometimes heard at SAIL, where
the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the
musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close
approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting
for five seconds). The ‘feeper’ on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound
of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also ding.
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coffeepot
(encz) | coffeepot,konvice na kávu Pavel Cvrček |
coffee-pot
(gcide) | coffee-pot \cof"fee-pot\, coffeepot \cof"fee*pot\, n.
1. A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought
upon the table for drinking.
[1913 Webster]
2. a tall pot in which coffee is brewed, especially one in
which the heating of the water is accomplished by
electricity.
Syn: coffeepot, coffee pot.
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coffeepot
(gcide) | coffee-pot \cof"fee-pot\, coffeepot \cof"fee*pot\, n.
1. A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought
upon the table for drinking.
[1913 Webster]
2. a tall pot in which coffee is brewed, especially one in
which the heating of the water is accomplished by
electricity.
Syn: coffeepot, coffee pot.
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coffeepot
(wn) | coffeepot
n 1: tall pot in which coffee is brewed |
feeper
(foldoc) | feeper
/fee'pr/ The device in a terminal or workstation (usually
a loudspeaker of some kind) that makes the feep sound.
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feeping creature
(foldoc) | feeping creature
[feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of
chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose
for a whole horde of new features.
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feeping creaturism
(foldoc) | feeping creaturism
/fee'ping kree"ch*r-izm/ A deliberate spoonerism for {creeping
featurism}, meant to imply that the system or program in
question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term
isn"t really well defined, but it sounds so neat that most
hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced by
an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their
customary noises.
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feeper
(jargon) | feeper
/fee'pr/, n.
The device in a terminal or workstation (usually a loudspeaker of some
kind) that makes the feep sound.
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feeping creature
(jargon) | feeping creature
n.
[from feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that,
in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new
features.
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feeping creaturism
(jargon) | feeping creaturism
/fee'ping kree`ch@r·izm/, n.
A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism, meant to imply that the
system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks.
This term isn't really well defined, but it sounds so neat that most
hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced by an image of
terminals prowling about in the dark making their customary noises.
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