DUBBED

DUB

dub

(verb) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language

dub, nickname

(verb) give a nickname to

knight, dub

(verb) raise (someone) to knighthood; “The Beatles were knighted”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

dubbed

simple past tense and past participle of dub

Source: Wiktionary


DUB

Dub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dubbing.] Etym: [AS. dubban to strike, beat ("dubbade his sunu . . . to ridere." AS. Chron. an 1086); akin to Icel. dubba; cf. OF. adouber (prob. fr. Icel.) a chevalier, Icel. dubba til riddara.]

1. To confer knight.

Note: The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.

2. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure.

4. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as: (a) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(b) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell. (c) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. Tomlinson. (d) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

– To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Dub, v. i.

Definition: To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs." Beau. & Fl.

Dub, n.

Definition: A blow. [R.] Hudibras.

Dub, n. Etym: [Cf. Ir. dĂłb mire, stream, W. dwvr water.]

Definition: A pool or puddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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