dub

名词 n. 动词 v.
/dʌb/    /dʌb/|/dɐb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small copper coin once used in India. India,historical
  2. A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed. countable
  3. An unskillful, awkward person. historical,slang
    — 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.
  4. A blow, thrust, or poke. rare
    — And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub Sounds like the hooping of a tub
  5. A pool or puddle. UK,dialectal
    — “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.”
  6. A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana. slang
  7. A lock. UK,obsolete
  8. Clipping of double-u. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
    — World Wide Web or WWW Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider.
  9. A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more. slang
    — When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs.
  10. A key, especially a master key; a lock pick. UK,obsolete
    — […]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[…]
  11. A poorly executed shot.
  12. Clipping of double-u.; A win. Internet
    — I haven't had a dub in a few games.
  13. A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks. uncountable
    — 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.
  14. A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music. uncountable
    — But I think my bass playing is definitely dub-influenced.
  15. A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline. countable,slang
    — […] we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
  16. The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing. countable
动词 v.
  1. To open or close. UK,obsolete,transitive
    — "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."
  2. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
    — Now the drum dubb's.
  3. To add sound to film or change audio on film.
  4. To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade. transitive
    — You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.
  5. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
  6. To do something badly.
  7. To name, to entitle, to call. informal,transitive
    — 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.
  8. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
  9. To execute a shot poorly.
  10. To deem. transitive
    — A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
  11. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
  12. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
    — His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.
  13. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.; To dress with an adze.
    — to dub a stick of timber smooth
  14. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.; To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
    — For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards
  15. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.; To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
    — 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
  16. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.; To dress a fishing fly.
    — if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient
  17. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
1505-1515
词源 3
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
词源 4
From a shortening of the word double.
词源 5
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
词源 6
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
词源 7
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
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