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Dub vs Daub - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between dub and daub

is that 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 while daub is to apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

As nouns the difference between dub and daub

is that 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 while daub is excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

dub

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)
  • (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.
  • *
  • *: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.”
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • #:
  • #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.
  • Etymology 2

    From a shortening of the word (double).

    Verb

    (dubb)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * overdub

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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)
  • we climbed up the scaffolding and did these gold little dubs and you couldn't see them.
  • * 2011 , Justin Rollins, The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti (page 34)
  • The year 1998 was alive with graffiti and trains pulling up with dubs on their sides.
    Derived terms
    * dub ska * overdub * dubstep

    Etymology 3

    Compare Irish .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.
  • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 4

    From shortening of double .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
  • (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
  • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A blow.
  • (Hudibras)

    Verb

    (dubb)
  • To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Now the drum dubs .

    Anagrams

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    daub

    English

    (wikipedia daub)

    Noun

  • Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction .
  • A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.
  • A crude or amateurish painting.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
  • The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
  • To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
  • * Bible, Exodus ii. 3
  • She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
  • To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
  • * I. Watts
  • If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece.
  • * Dryden
  • a lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over
  • To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  • * Shakespeare
  • So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
  • To flatter excessively or glossy.
  • * Smollett
  • I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
  • To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
  • * Dryden
  • Let him be daubed with lace.

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