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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blip out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To eliminate; to skip over or ignore.
    • He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings. 1995, John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:
    • If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly. 1990, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge: Hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Casper, Wyoming, July 23, 1990 (serial no. 101-25), volume 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 25:

Forms

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blipping out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blips out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blipped out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blipped out Tense=Past lexicographic