dub

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

3. (transitive) To deem.
   • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

     A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
   • Morte d'Arthure

     His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
   1. To dress with an adze.

      to dub a stick of timber smooth

   2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

   3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Tomlinson to this entry?)

   4. To dress a fishing fly.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Now the drum dubs.

2. To do something badly.
3. In golf, to execute a shot poorly.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (now historical) (slang) An unskillful, awkard person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
   • 1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf‎, London: The Strand Magazine:

     As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

Noun

dub (uncountable)

1. (music) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
2. (music) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
3. (music) A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
4. (slang) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
   • 2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture (page 84)

     […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.

   • 2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti (page 34)

     The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.

5. The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation (dubbing).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (Britain, dialect) A pool or puddle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To open or close.
   • 1828, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman‎, page 402:

     "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A lock.
2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.
   • 1789, Parker, George, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:

     […] going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys […]

Declension

Derived terms

• doubek
• doubí
• doubrava
• dubový
• dub balkánský
• dub bahenní
• dub cer
• dub cesmínovitý
• dub červený
• dub letní
• dub pýřitý
• dub slovenský
• dub zimní

Declension

Inflection

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Descendants

• Irish: dubh
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh
• Manx: doo

Inflection

Synonyms

• hrast

Derived terms

• Dubrovnik

Declension

Derived terms

• dubový
• dubček
• dúbok

Derived terms

• dubä