Dubnoun詞源 1/dʌb/

• 1

  A Dubliner.

  • There is a distinction between Dubliners on the one hand and "rednecks" on the other. […] The Dubs historically went to Liverpool and Birmingham, so they don't have the connections.
  • I did the Pat Kenny show one night and talked about coming from the bottom up, and I got numerous letters, saying to hear somebody with a Dub accent running the brewery was unbelievable.

dubverb詞源 1/dʌb/

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  To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.

  • You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.
  • It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […].
• 2

  informalTo name, to entitle, to call.

  • They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on.
  • 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

  To deem.

  • A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
• 4

  To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

  • His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.
• 5

  headingTo strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

  • to dub a stick of timber smooth
• 6

  headingTo strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

  • For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards
• 7

  headingTo strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

  • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
• 8

  headingTo strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

  • if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient

dubverb詞源 2/dʌb/

• 1

  To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

  • Now the drum dubb's.
• 2

  To do something badly.

• 3

  golfhobbieslifestyleTo execute a shot poorly.

dubnoun詞源 2/dʌb/

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  rareA blow, thrust, or poke.

  • And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub
• 2

  golfhobbieslifestyleA poorly executed shot.

dubnoun詞源 3/dʌb/

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  historicalslangAn unskillful, awkward person.

  • As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub, emerging from the rough on the right. Apparently, the latter had sliced from the tee, and Ernest had been helping him find his ball.
  • The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

dubverb詞源 4/dʌb/

• 1

  To add sound to film or change audio on film.

• 2

  To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.

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  To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

• 4

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

dubnoun詞源 4/dʌb/

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.

• 2

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.

  • It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point, it breaks down to little more than a stabbing, echoing organ with a vintage reggae flavour.
• 3

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.

  • But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.
  • Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.
• 4

  slangA piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.

  • […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
  • The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
• 5

  The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

dubnoun詞源 5/dʌb/

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  dialectalA pool or puddle.

  • “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice. “That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”

dubnoun詞源 6/dʌb/

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  slangA twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.

• 2

  slangA wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

  • When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.

dubverb詞源 7/dʌb/

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  obsoleteTo open or close.

  • "Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged."

dubnoun詞源 7/dʌb/

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  obsoleteA lock.

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  obsoleteA key, especially a master key; a lock pick.

  • […]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat nor cloak on, a bunch of young dubs by her side, which are a bunch of small keys[…]

dubnoun詞源 8/dʌb/

• 1

  video-gamesClipping of double-u.

  • I haven't had a dub in a few games.

dubnoun詞源 9/dʌb/

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  historicalA small copper coin once used in India.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• dysfunctional uterine bleeding
• University of Dublin
• used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate
• double-u