DUB | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of dub in English dubverb uk /dʌb/ us /dʌb/ -bb-

dub verb (NAME)

Add to word list Add to word list [ T + noun ] to give something or someone a particular name, especially describing what you think of it, him, or her: She was dubbed by the newspapers "the Angel of Death". Names and titles

• A.N. Other
• age
• aka
• alias
• appellation
• first name
• forename
• form of address
• generic name
• given name
• otherwise known as someone/something
• patronymic
• pen name
• pet name
• place name
• trade name
• trademark
• unchristened
• under the name of idiom
• unidentified

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dub verb (HONOUR)

[ T + noun ] to give a man the rank of knight, an honour given by a British king or queen, in a special ceremony that involves touching his shoulders with a sword: King John knighted him and dubbed him Sir Richard Plantagenet. After the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, Nelson was dubbed a Knight of the Bath.

• The Grand Master then brings the sword down gently on each of the candidate's shoulders saying: "I dub you knight, rise Sir."
• Michael Caine's investiture took place on November 16 when the Queen dubbed him Sir Maurice Micklewhite, his real name.
• I now dub you Sir McDonald, the Immortal Knight.

Ceremonies

• anti-ritualism
• cauldron
• cavalcade
• ceremonial
• ceremonially
• guard of honour
• hara-kiri
• homage
• induct
• initiate someone into something
• initiation
• initiation ceremony
• initiation into something
• initiatory
• rededicate
• rededication
• remember
• requiem
• ribbon cutting
• troop

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dub verb (SOUNDS)

[ T ] to change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language: dub something into something They bought American TV programmes and dubbed them into Italian. I'd rather watch a film with subtitles than one dubbed into English.be dubbed over To conceal his identity, the man's voice has been dubbed over (= an actor speaks his words). Editing & compiling

• abridged
• amend
• anthologist
• blue pencil
• bowdlerization
• bowdlerized
• co-edit
• compile
• excerpt
• non-editorial
• over-edit
• post-editing
• proofreading
• recension
• revise
• sub-editor
• subedit
• undubbed
• unfiltered
• unindexed

See more results » dubnoun [ U ] uk /dʌb/ us /dʌb/ a style of music or poetry connected with reggae in which the main part of the tune is removed and various special effects are added Pop, rock & soul

• acid rock
• agit-pop
• alt-rock
• anti-rock
• art-rocker
• drum and bass
• electronica
• emo
• Europop
• floor filler
• jazz-rock
• K-pop
• lyrically
• mod
• Motown
• supergroup
• techno
• thrash metal
• Tin Pan Alley
• top 40

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Types of music (Definition of dub from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

dub | American Dictionary

dubverb [ T ] us /dʌb/ -bb-

dub verb [T] (NAME)

Add to word list Add to word list to give something or someone a particular name, esp. describing what you think of that person or thing: At age 21 Ella Fitzgerald was dubbed "The First Lady of Swing."

dub verb [T] (CHANGE)

to use different voices, sounds, or images in a movie, television program, recording, etc., to replace others made originally or as added parts: She is no singer, and her rock ’n’ roll numbers were dubbed. The scenery is dubbed into the CD-ROM movie using computer-graphics software. (Definition of dub from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of dub

dub Once the first 12 consecutive, multiword utterances were identified for each of the participants, the children's samples were dubbed onto an audiotape in random order. From the Cambridge English Corpus A narrator's voice was then dubbed over the scenes, describing the actions of the puppets and asking the questions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Innovative practices of re-composition were central to a number of black electronic musics, including dub, toasting, scratching, rap, hip hop and their derivatives. From the Cambridge English Corpus The evidentialist, as we may dub him, claims that the magnitude and distribution of evil provides a prima facie reason for the rejection of theism. From the Cambridge English Corpus An analysis of the techniques of ' ' scratching ' ' and ' ' dubbing ' ' also gives new insights into previously discussed topics. From the Cambridge English Corpus To provide the repetition component of the training sequence, the file was dubbed. From the Cambridge English Corpus We have dubbed this simple approximate method the 'carpet search'. From the Cambridge English Corpus I therefore dubbed the item "spurious" (that is, lacking authenticity in origin) and turned to other data to evaluate the matter. From the Cambridge English Corpus A method of obtaining all kinds of noise, while reducing the somewhat boring static behaviour of the pure noise types, is dubbed atomic noise. From the Cambridge English Corpus The set of all such interactions carried out by proteins encoded in a genome has been dubbed the interactome. From the Cambridge English Corpus Auditory prompts were dubbed onto the auditory channel of one of the video tapes. From the Cambridge English Corpus The crusade against out-door relief, as contemporaries dubbed it, soon turned into 'a form of brutal dispauperisation'. From the Cambridge English Corpus This gave birth to various small specialist labels which reissued 78s dubbed onto vinyl albums, as well as new recordings by recently rediscovered blues singers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Any element of business acumen or profit-seeking effort was dubbed ulanguzi (conmanship). From the Cambridge English Corpus As indicated above, there are two kinds of programmes which we can dub reality shows. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of dub These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of dub?

Translations of dub

in Chinese (Traditional) 名字, 稱…爲，將…冠以, 聲音… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 名字, 称…为，将…冠以, 声音… See more in Spanish apodar, nombrar caballero, doblar… See more in Portuguese apelidar, batizar, dublar… See more in Turkish in French in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian lakap/isim takmak, seslendirme/dublaj yapmak, dublaj yapmak… See more doubler, postsynchroniser, surnommer… See more nasynchroniseren, bijmixen, een bijnaam geven… See more dabovat, provést postsynchron, přezdívat… See more dubbe, eftersynkronisere, kalde… See more mengganti suara, menambah suara, menjuluki… See more พากย์, อัดเสียงลงบนแผ่นฟิล์ม, ตั้งฉายา… See more lồng tiếng, lồng nhạc, đặt biệt danh… See more nadać przydomek, przezywać, dubbingować… See more dubba, eftersynkronisera, lägga på ljudeffekter… See more memasukkan suara ke dalam filem, mengalih suara, gelaran… See more synchronisieren, nennen… See more dubbe, legg på ny lyd, ettersynkronisere… See more дублювати фільм, накладати фонограму, давати прізвисько… See more Need a translator?

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• DUB, at dysfunctional uterine bleeding
• re-dub, at redub

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