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DUB

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: dubbed    , dubbing   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The new sounds added by dubbing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dub" is a kind of...):

auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "dub" is one way to...):

synchronise; synchronize (make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action)

"Dub" entails doing...:

interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

Domain category:

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue dub the movie

Derivation:

dubbing (a new soundtrack that is added to a film)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give a nickname to

Synonyms:

dub; nickname

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "dub" is one way to...):

be known as; call; know as; name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody something

Sentence example:

They dub him "Bobby"

Sense 3

Meaning:

Raise (someone) to knighthood

Example:

The Beatles were knighted

Synonyms:

dub; knight

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "dub" is one way to...):

ennoble; entitle; gentle (give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

Dubbed "Yi qi", the fossil was bizarre enough that it divided paleontologist opinion on whether or not the creature had wings.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In 2007, a team of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine developed a technology dubbed DREADD—Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)

The building site, dubbed "Sparky," is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton’s intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The disk and its star are located in what is dubbed the Carina association – a large, loose grouping of similar stars in the Carina Nebula approximately 212 light years from our sun.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

Curiosity also detected different Martian organic chemicals in powder drilled from a rock dubbed Cumberland, the first definitive detection of organics in surface materials of Mars.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

The Curiosity team decided to back up the rover 46 meters (151 feet) from the geological contact zone to investigate the high-silica target dubbed "Elk".

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

The team dubbed it ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah), which means “a messenger from afar arriving first” in Hawaiian — and it’s already living up to its name.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

Tamás and University of Szeged doctoral student Eszter Boldog dubbed these new cells rosehip neurons — to them, the dense bundle each brain cell's axon forms around the cell's center looks just like a rose after it has shed its petals, he said.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dub was badly injured in a hind leg; Dolly, the last husky added to the team at Dyea, had a badly torn throat; Joe had lost an eye; while Billee, the good-natured, with an ear chewed and rent to ribbons, cried and whimpered throughout the night.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)