Dub vs Dove - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between dub and dove

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 dove is to be obliged, compelled, or forced to; must, have to.

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.

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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dove

English

(wikipedia dove)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dove, douve, duve, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

(politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).

* Cant. ii. 14

O my dove , let me hear thy voice.

Synonyms

* columbid * columbiform * culver * pigeon

Derived terms

* African Mourning Dove (Streptopelia decipiens ) * Adamawa Turtle Dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha ) * American Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * Barbary Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * Carolina Turtledove (Zenaida macroura ) * Carunculated Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus granulifrons ) * Crimson-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus ) * cushat dove, cushat-dove * diamond dove * dovecot, dovecote * dove of peace * dovish * Dwarf Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus naina ) * Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata ) * Fischer's fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri ) * fruit dove, fruit-dove * Galapagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis''), (''Zenaida galapagoensis ) * Grey-headed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus ) * ground dove * Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu ) * Magnificent Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus ) * Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * Mourning Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens ) * Rain Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * release dove * Ring Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * Ringneck Dove (Streptopelia risoria ) * rock dove * Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni ) * turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove * Western Turtle Dove (Zenaida macroura ) * West Peruvian Dove (Zenaida meloda ) * White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica ) * Wompoo Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus ) * Zenaida dove (Zenaida ) * Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita )

Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive ? drove and weave ? wove.

Alternative forms

* dived

Verb

(head)

Strong-declension (dive)

* 2007 : Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide'', §: ''Africa'', ''Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire , page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361)

When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove , Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

(non-standard)

Usage notes

* See dive'' for ''dived'' vs. ''dove .

References

* “ dove]” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50067738 dive, v.'']”, listed in the '' [2^nd Ed.; 1989 English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies ----