dub

cs-noun

dub m inan (relational adjective dubový)

dubový (adjective relational)
dub (nominative singular)
duby (nominative plural)
dubu (genitive singular)
dubů (genitive plural)
dubu (dative singular)
dubům (dative plural)
dub (accusative singular)
duby (accusative plural)
dube (singular vocative)
duby (plural vocative)
dubě (locative singular)
dubu (locative singular)
dubech (locative plural)
dubem (instrumental singular)
duby (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech dub, from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).


dub

You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 154, column 2:

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; […].

1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter II, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 114:

(transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.

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.

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:

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.”

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

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.

2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.

2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:

(transitive) To name, to entitle, to call.

A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

to dub a stick of timber smooth

(heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

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

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

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

To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.

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

1689, James Chetham, The Anglers Vade Mecum:

To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

en-verb

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

dubs (present singular third-person)
dubbing (participle present)
dubbed (participle past)
dubbed (past)

From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.


dub

Now the drum dubb's.

1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:


dub

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

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:


dub

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.

1936, P. G. Wodehouse, There's Always Golf, London: The Strand Magazine:

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!

1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135:

(slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.

1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.


dub

To add sound to film or change audio on film.

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

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

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

dubli

to add sound to film or change audio on film

اِنْتَسَخَ

to make a copy from an original or master audio tape

دَبْلَجَ

to replace soundtrack of a film with translation

sämplätä

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


dub

(music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.

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.

2020 April 23, Alexis Petridis, “The Rolling Stones: Living in a Ghost Town review – their best new song in years”, in The Guardian:

(music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.

But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.

2019 January 18, Jamie Dickson, “Khruangbin: “We’re not intending to create war with our music… It’s the absence of that aggression that a lot of rock bands have””, in Music Radar:

Dyl’s polyrhythmic grooves on The Subsurface Project fuse dub techno and drum & bass, mixing modular sounds with hints of warm, jittery jungle.

2020 July 20, Arun Chakal, “The Worked-Up Sound of Drum & Bass in Russia and Eastern Europe”, in Bandcamp Daily:

It reminded me of that classic Full Cycle vibe of jazzy soulful sounds blending with dub bass and fx.

2020 August 3, Kane, “The Extended Cut: Zero T - Former Self EP [The North Quarter]”, in Magnetic Magazine:

(music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.

[…] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.

2001, Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture, page 84:

The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.

2011, Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti, page 34:

(slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.

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

en-noun

dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)


dub

“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.”

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).


dub

(slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.

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

2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:

(slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).


dub

"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."

1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter LXXXIII, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 402:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To open or close.

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).


dub

[…]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[…]

1789, George Parker, Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life, page 162:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.


dub

World Wide Web or WWW
Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.

1997, Nelson Howell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual InterDev, Que Pub, →ISBN:

I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.”

2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, page 119:

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

Clipping of double-u.
(video games, Internet slang) A win.


dub

(India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.


dub

dub (nominative singular)
duba (dual nominative)
duby (nominative plural)
duba (genitive singular)
dubowu (dual genitive)
dubow (genitive plural)
duboju (dative singular)
duboma (dative dual)
dubam (dative plural)
dub (accusative singular)
duba (accusative dual)
duby (accusative plural)
dubom (instrumental singular)
duboma (dual instrumental)
dubami (instrumental plural)
dubje (locative singular)
duboma (dual locative)
dubach (locative plural)


dub

dub (nominative singular)
duby (dual nominative)
dubi (nominative plural)
dubové (nominative plural)
duba (genitive singular)
dubu (genitive singular)
dubú (dual genitive)
dubóv (genitive plural)
dubu (dative singular)
duboma (dative dual)
dubóm (dative plural)
dub (accusative singular)
duby (accusative dual)
duby (accusative plural)
dube (singular vocative)
duby (dual vocative)
dubi (plural vocative)
dubové (plural vocative)
dubě (locative singular)
dubu (locative singular)
dubú (dual locative)
dubiech (locative plural)
dubem (instrumental singular)
duboma (dual instrumental)
duby (instrumental plural)

Czech: dub

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak tree, oak”).


dub

sga-decl-adj-table

*not attested in Old Irish; same as nominative singular masculine in Middle Irish

dub (masculine nominative singular)
dub (feminine nominative singular)
dub (neuter nominative singular)
dub (masculine singular vocative)
dub (feminine singular vocative)
dub (neuter singular vocative)
dub (accusative masculine singular)
duib (accusative feminine singular)
dub (accusative neuter singular)
duib (genitive masculine singular)
dubae (feminine genitive singular)
duib (genitive neuter singular)
dub (dative masculine singular)
duib (dative feminine singular)
dub (dative neuter singular)
dubai (masculine nominative plural)
dubai (feminine neuter nominative singular)
dubai (masculine plural vocative)
dubai (feminine neuter singular vocative)
dubai (accusative masculine plural)
dubai (accusative feminine neuter singular)
dubaib (dative)
dubaib (dative masculine)

Irish: dubh

Scottish Gaelic: dubh

Manx: doo

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


dub

ó dub glosses atramento

in maith a n-dubso amne

Memmbrum naue, droch dub! Ó, ní epur na haill.

New parchment, bad ink! Oh, I say nothing more.

dubo (genitive)
dub (nominative singular)
dub (singular vocative)
dub (accusative singular)
dubo (genitive singular)
duba (genitive singular)
dub (dative singular)
dub
ndub


dub

c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni

The rock cracks, the oak breaks, let the earth quake!

Stijena puca, dub se lama, zemlja nek’ se trese!

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


dub

sk-noun

dub m inan (relational adjective dubový, diminutive dubček or dúbok)

dubový (adjective relational)
dubček (diminutive)
dúbok (diminutive)
singular
plural
nominative
dub
duby
genitive
duba
dubov
dative
dubu
dubom
accusative
locative
dube
duboch
instrumental
dubmi


dub

hsb-noun

dub m inan (diminutive dubičk or dubik, augmentative dubisko)

dubičk (diminutive)
dubik (diminutive)
dubisko (augmentative)
dub (nominative singular)
dubaj (dual nominative)
duby (nominative plural)
duba (genitive singular)
dubow (dual genitive)
dubow (genitive plural)
dubej (dative singular)
dubomaj (dative dual)
dubam (dative plural)
dub (accusative singular)
dubaj (accusative dual)
duby (accusative plural)
dubom (instrumental singular)
dubomaj (dual instrumental)
dubami (instrumental plural)
dubje (locative singular)
dubomaj (dual locative)
dubach (locative plural)
dubo (singular vocative)
dubje (singular vocative)
dubaj (dual vocative)
duby (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫ̑bъ. Cognate with Lower Sorbian dub.


dub

second/third-person singular personal of dubić

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


dub

From Proto-Hmong *qrɛŋᴬ (“black”), related to Proto-Mien *qri̯ɛkᴰ (“black”), though the details are unclear due to irregular rime and tone correspondences.


dub

head

dub (Sawndip forms 𭡡 or 𰔥 or 𭡫, 1957–1982 spelling dub)

From Proto-Tai *dupᴬ (“to pound”); cognate with Thai ทุบ (túp), Lao ທຸບ (thup), Shan ထုပ်ႉ (thṵ̂p). Also compare Cantonese 𢱕 (dap6, “to pound; to strike”).