According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
BLIP
blip, pip, radar target
(noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
blip
(noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption; “the market had one bad blip today”; “you can’t react to the day-to-day blips”; “renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
blip (plural blips)
(electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
(internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
Verb
blip (third-person singular simple present blips, present participle blipping, simple past and past participle blipped)
(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
(transitive) synonym of bleep
Source: Wiktionary
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