dub

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber, adober "equip with arms; adorn" (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), of uncertain origin, but possibly from a Frankish *dubban, cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

The modern sense of "to name" is from the 1590s.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 5, The Younger Set^[1]:

     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.”

3. (transitive) To deem.

   A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Alexander Pope

Translations

to confer knighthood

• Bulgarian: посвещавам (bg) (posveštavam)
• Dutch: tot ridder slaan (nl)
• Finnish: lyödä ritariksi (fi)

• French: adouber (fr)
• Russian: посвящать в рыцари

to name, to entitle, to call

• Bulgarian: наричам (bg) (naričam)
• Finnish: nimittää (fi), kutsua (fi)
• French: reconnaître (fr) (en tant que...)

• Russian: дать прозвище или кличку, окрестить
• Spanish: apodar (es)

Etymology 2

From a shortening of the word double.

Verb

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

1. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
2. To copy the audio track onto a film.
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.

Derived terms

• overdub

Translations

to make a copy from an original or master audio tape

• Arabic: انتسخ (ar) (intásakha), نسخ (ar) (násakha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複製 (cmn), 复制 (cmn) (fùzhì)

• Finnish: kopioida (fi)
• Japanese: 写す (ja) (うつす, utsusu), コピーする (ja) (kopī-suru)
• Russian: дублировать (ru) (dublírovat’) impf., копировать (ru) (kopírovat’) impf.

to copy the audio track onto a film

• Finnish: jälkiäänittää, dubata
• Hungarian: szinkronizál (hu)

• Russian: дублировать (ru) (dublírovat’) impf.

to replace soundtrack with translation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 配音 (cmn) (pèiyīn)

• Czech: dabovat (cs)
• Finnish: dubata (fi)
• French: doubler (fr)
• German: synchronisieren (de)
• Greek: μεταγλωττίζω (el) (metaglottízo)
• Hungarian: szinkronizál (hu)

• Italian: doppiare (it)
• Japanese: 吹き替える (ja) (ふきかえる, fukikaeru)
• Malay: menyuara (ms), mengalih suara (ms)
• Portuguese: dublar (pt)
• Russian: дублировать (ru) (dublírovat’) impf.
• Spanish: doblar (es)
• Thai: พากย์ (th) (pâak)

to mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix

• Finnish: sämplätä (fi)

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.

Derived terms

• dub ska
• overdub
• dubstep

Etymology 3

Compare Irish word for "mire, stream", Welsh word for "water".

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

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

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

Etymology 4

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

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

Anagrams

• BDU
• bud, Bud

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dup/
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

dub m, inanimate

1. oak, oak tree

Declension

    declension of dub

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

Derived terms

• dub balkánský
• dub cer
• dub červený
• dub letní
• dub pýřitý
• dub slovenský
• dub zimní

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Rafsi

dub

1. rafsi of du.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰanw-.

Noun

dub m (Cyrillic spelling дуб)

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

Synonyms

• hrast

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ

Noun

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

1. oak, oak tree

Declension

    declension of dub

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

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Volapük

Preposition

dub

1. by