Dub
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dÊŒb/
- Rhymes: -ÊŒb
Origin 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.
Full definition of dub
Verb
- (transitive) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
- (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call.
- 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 5, 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.â€
- 2013-06-22, Engineers of a different kind, 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.
- (transitive) To deem.
- Alexander PopeA man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- Morte d'ArthureHis diadem was dropped down
Dubbed with stones. - To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
- To dress with an adze.to dub a stick of timber smooth
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
Origin 2
From a shortening of the word double.
Verb
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To copy the audio track onto a film.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
Derived terms
Noun
dub
(uncountable)- (music) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- (music) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- (music) A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- (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.
Origin 3
Compare Irish dobhar, Welsh dŵr.
Origin 4
From shortening of double dime ("twenty").