dub

See also: Dub, Dub., and DUB

dub - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dʌb/

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.
  3. (transitive) To deem.
  4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
  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.
    3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
    4. To dress a fishing fly.
  6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

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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.
  2. To do something badly.
  3. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
  2. (golf) A poorly executed shot.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.

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.
  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.

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Noun

dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)

  1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
  2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
  3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
  4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
  5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

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Noun

dub (plural dubs)

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

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

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

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Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To open or close.

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Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A lock.
  2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

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Noun

dub (plural dubs)

  1. Clipping of double-u.
    1. (video games, Internet slang) A win.
      • I haven't had a dub in a few games

Anagrams

dub - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈdup]
  • Hyphenation: dub
  • Homophone: dup

Noun

dub m inan

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

singular plural
nominative dub duby
genitive dubu dubů
dative dubu dubům
accusative dub duby
vocative dube duby
locative dubě, dubu dubech
instrumental dubem duby

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Anagrams

dub - Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dup/

Noun

dub m

  1. oak

Declension

Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dub duba duby
Genitive duba dubowu dubow
Dative duboju duboma dubam
Accusative dub duba duby
Instrumental dubom duboma dubami
Locative dubje duboma dubach

dub - Old Czech

Noun

dub m

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

singular dual plural
nominative dub duba, duby dubi, dubové (duboví), duby
genitive duba, dubu dubú (dubou) dubóv (dubuov, dubů), dub
dative dubu, dubovi duboma, dubama dubóm (dubuom, dubům)
accusative dub, duba duba, duby duby
vocative dube duba, duby dubi, dubové (duboví), duby
locative dubě (dube), dubu, dubovi dubú (dubou) dubiech (dubích), dubech, dubách
instrumental dubem duboma, dubama duby, dubmi, dubami

Descendants

dub - Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /duv/

Adjective

dub

  1. black
  2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

Inflection

u-stem

Descendants

Noun

dub n (genitive dubo)

  1. black pigment, ink
  2. gall

Inflection

Neuter u-stem

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
dub dub pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ ndub
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

dub - San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Noun

dub

  1. agave

dub - Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)

  1. (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
  2. (Croatia, archaic) oak tree

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dub - Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [dup]

Noun

dub m inan (genitive singular duba, nominative plural duby, genitive plural dubov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

singular plural
nominative dub duby
genitive duba dubov
dative dubu dubom
accusative dub duby
locative dube duboch
instrumental dubom dubmi

Derived terms

dub - Spanish

Noun

dub m (plural dubs)

  1. (music) dub

dub - Sumerian

Romanization

dub

  1. Romanization of 𒁾 (dub)

dub - Volapük

Preposition

dub

  1. due to, because of

Derived terms

dub - Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /tup˧/
  • Tone numbers: dub8
  • Hyphenation: dub

Verb

dub (Sawndip forms 𭡡 or 𰔥 or 𭡫, 1957–1982 spelling dub)

  1. to hit; to strike
  2. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
  3. to castrate (a male water buffalo)

Verb

dub (1957–1982 spelling dub)

  1. to harrow (a paddy)
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