Dub

[dʌb]

Definition

(noun.) the new sounds added by dubbing.

(verb.) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language.

(verb.) give a nickname to.

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Definition

(v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

(v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

(v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

(v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;

(v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

(v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.

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

(v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

(n.) A blow.

(n.) A pool or puddle.

Typist: Rudy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Name, style, term, denominate, designate, call, entitle, christen.

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Definition

n. (Scot.) a pool of foul water: a puddle.

v.t. to confer knighthood from the ceremony of striking the shoulder with the flat of a sword: to confer any name or dignity: to smooth with an adze: to rub a softening and waterproof mixture into as leather: to dress a fly for fishing:—pr.p. dub′bing; pa.p. dubbed.—n. Dub′bing the accolade: a preparation of grease for softening leather—also Dub′bin.

Editor: Ramon