Buff vs Dub - What's the difference?
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Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
* Shakespeare
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
A brownish yellow colour.
* Dryden
A military coat made of buff leather.
(informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
(gaming) An effect that temporally makes a gaming character stronger.
(rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
The bare skin.
* Wright
The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
* Police said the 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and "buff" into bricks. (CBC)
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
(bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed'' or ''buffed out )
* 1994 , Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture , page 155:
(slang) attractive.
To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
(gaming) To make a character stronger.
(obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
* Spenser
(lb) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
(lb) To name, to entitle, to call.
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*: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.”
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, title= (lb) To deem.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
*Morte d'Arthure
*:His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.
(lb) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
#To dress with an adze.
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#To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
#:(Halliwell)
#To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
#:(Tomlinson)
#To dress a fishing fly.
#:(Halliwell)
To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
To copy the audio track onto a film.
To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
(music) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
(music) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
(music) A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
(slang) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
* 2001 , Nancy Macdonald, The Graffiti Subculture (page 84)
* 2011 , Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti (page 34)
(slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
(slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As an acronym buff
is (slang|us|air force) big ugly fat fellow (or fucker); us airforce nickname for the b-52 bomber.As a verb dub is
(lb) to confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword or dub can be to make a copy from an original or master audio tape or dub can be to make a noise by brisk drumbeats.As a noun dub is
(music) a mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed or dub can be (uk|dialect) a pool or puddle or dub can be (slang) a twenty dollar sack of marijuana or dub can be (rare) a blow.buff
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- a suit of buff
- a visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff
- (Shakespeare)
- He’s a history buff .
- to strip to the buff
- To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
Derived terms
* in the buffAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfAdjective
(en-adj)- The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
- The appearance of logic often derives from faulty syllogisms such as Sgt. Koon's conclusion that King was an ex-con because he was "buffed out " (heavily muscled). The thinking is: "ex-cons are often buffed out; this man is buffed out; therefore, this man is an ex-con."
Derived terms
* buff-tip moth * bufflyVerb
(en verb)- The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
Derived terms
* buff out * buff up * buff wheelSynonyms
* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnishAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfSee also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.
Derived terms
* blind man's buffdub
English
Etymology 1
From a Late (etyl) (11th century) word "equip with arms; adorn" (also 11th century, Modern French ''adouber''), of uncertain origin, but possibly from a Frankish *(term), cognate with Icelandic dubba (''dubba til riddara ). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word. The modern sense of "to name" is from the 1590s.Verb
(dubb)Engineers of a different kind, passage=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.}}
Etymology 2
From a shortening of the word (double).Verb
(dubb)Derived terms
* overdubNoun
(-)- we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
- The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
Derived terms
* dub ska * overdub * dubstepEtymology 3
Compare Irish .Etymology 4
From shortening of double .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
Verb
(dubb)- Now the drum dubs .