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Webster 1913 Edition

Dub

Dub

(dŭb)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dubbed
(dŭbd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dubbing
.]
[AS.
dubban
to strike, beat (“
dubbade
his sunu . . . to rīdere.”
AS. Chron.
an. 1086); akin to Icel.
dubba
; cf. OF.
adouber
(prob. fr. Icel.) a chevalier, Icel.
dubba
til riddara.]
1.
To confer knighthood upon;
as, the king
dubbed
his son Henry a knight
.
☞ The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
2.
To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
A man of wealth is
dubbed
a man of worth.
Pope.
3.
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
[Obs.]
His diadem was dropped down
Dubbed
with stones.
Morte d’Arthure.
4.
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
as:
(a)
To dress with an adz;
as, to
dub
a stick of timber smooth
.
(b)
To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
Halliwell.
(c)
To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
Tomlinson.
(d)
To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
To dub a fly
,
to dress a fishing fly.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
–
To dub out
(Plastering)
,
to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Dub

(dŭb)
,
Verb.
I.
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
“Now the drum dubs.”
Beau. & Fl.

Dub

,
Noun.
A blow.
[R.]
Hudibras.

Dub

,
Noun.
[Cf. Ir.
dób
mire, stream, W.
dwvr
water.]
A pool or puddle.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dub

DUB

,
Verb.
T.
[Gr.] Literally, to strike. Hence,
1.
To strike a blow with a sword, and make a knight.
Se cyng, dubbade his sunu Henric to ridere.
The King dubbed his son Henry a knight.
2.
To confer any dignity or new character.
A man of wealth is dubbd a man of worth.

DUB

,
Verb.
I.
to make a quick noise.

DUB

,
Noun.
1.
A blow. [Little used.]
2.
In Irish, a puddle.

Definition 2024

Dub

Dub

See also: dub and DUB

English

Proper noun

Dub

  1. A female given name

dub

dub

See also: DUB and Dub

English

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 W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter V”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      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.
Translations

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
Translations

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

Etymology 3

Compare Irish dobhar ‎(“water”), Welsh dŵr ‎(“water”).

Noun

dub ‎(plural dubs)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A pool or puddle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 4

From shortening of double dime ‎(“twenty”).

Noun

dub ‎(plural dubs)

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

Etymology 5

Noun

dub ‎(plural dubs)

  1. (rare) A blow.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hudibras to this entry?)

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.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dup/
  • Rhymes: -up
  • Homophone: dup

Noun

dub m, inanimate

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Derived terms

Lojban

Rafsi

dub

  1. rafsi of du.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ.

Noun

dub m

  1. oak

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubus ‎(“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ‎(“black”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duv/

Adjective

dub

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

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Noun

dub n ‎(genitive duib)

  1. black pigment, ink
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a10
      "ó dub" glosses atramento
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13d1
      in maith a n-dubso amne
      is this ink good thus?
  2. gall

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
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.

References

  • “dub” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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
    • c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:
      Stijena puca, dub se lama, zemlja nek’ se trese!
      The rock cracks, the oak breaks, let the earth quake!

Synonyms

Derived Terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ

Noun

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

  1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Volapük

Preposition

dub

  1. due to, because of

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

dub m ‎(plural dubs)

  1. (music) dub

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʌb/
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

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