DUB (dubbed, dubbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: dubbed    , dubbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dub mean? 

• DUB (noun)
  The noun DUB has 1 sense:

1. the new sounds added by dubbing

  Familiarity information: DUB used as a noun is very rare.

• DUB (verb)
  The verb DUB has 3 senses:

1. give a nickname to

2. provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language

3. raise (someone) to knighthood

  Familiarity information: DUB used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUB (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)

• DUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dub    ... he / she / it dubs   
Past simple: dubbed   
Past participle: dubbed   
-ing form: dubbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give a nickname to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

dub; nickname

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 2

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 3

Meaning:

Raise (someone) to knighthood

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dub; knight

Context example:

The Beatles were knighted

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

 Context examples 

To get those measurements, Girguis and colleagues targeted a site on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge dubbed the "North Pond."

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed ‘the Sausage galaxy’.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

Dubbed Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short), the gravity- and light-sucking monster weighs as much as four million Suns.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The sheet could form a hollow, microscopic sphere that they dubbed an “azotosome.”

(NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’, NASA)

Under certain lighting conditions, Cassini's wide-view images showing icy material erupting from Enceladus reveal faint, finger-like features, dubbed "tendrils" by the imaging team.

(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)

Unlike a normal neutrino, which interacts by a subatomic force, this possible new particle would be affected only by gravity and is dubbed a “sterile neutrino.”

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The science team that made the discovery determined that the new planet, dubbed Proxima b, is at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)

This hellish scenario exists on the permanent daysides of a type of planet found outside our solar system dubbed an "ultrahot Jupiter."

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

According to the ICB, the treatment with the synthesized molecule, dubbed Samba, stopped the evolution of heart failure in animals.

(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)

Dubbed Mevatyl, the product is prescribed for the treatment of adults who suffer from spasms triggered by multiple sclerosis.

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