dub
/dʌb/ verb, noun
Forms dubs dubbing dubbed
- verb (transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
- verb (transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call.
- verb (transitive) To deem.
- verb To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- verb To dress with an adze. “to dub a stick of timber smooth”
- verb To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- verb To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- verb To dress a fishing fly.
- verb To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- verb To do something badly.
- verb (golf) To execute a shot poorly.
- noun (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
- noun (golf) A poorly executed shot.
- noun (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.
- verb To add sound to film or change audio on film.
- verb To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- verb To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- verb To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- noun (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- noun (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
Synonyms
knight designate name bename call clepe denominate entitle nominate style term consider think of account appraise count esteem see censure deem nickname
Etymology
From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
1505-1515
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
From a shortening of the word double.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To confer knight.
- verb To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
- verb To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs." Beau.
- noun A blow. [R.] Hudibras.
Etymology [AS. dubban to strike, beat ("dubbade his sunu . . . to ridere." AS. Chron. an 1086); akin to Icel. dubba; cf. OF. adouber (prob. fr. Icel.) a chevalier, Icel. dubba til riddara.]
Etymology [Cf. Ir. dób mire, stream, W. dwvr water.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dub”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details