Dub vs Due - What's the difference?
dub | due |
(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.
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#To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
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#To dress a fishing fly.
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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
Owed or owing.
Appropriate.
* Gray
Scheduled; expected.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
* J. D. Forbes
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
Deserved acknowledgment.
* {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015
, passage=Chelsea, to give them their due , did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.}}
(in plural dues ) A membership fee.
That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Right; just title or claim.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between dub and due
is that dub is a mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed while due is deserved acknowledgment.As a verb dub
is to confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.As an adjective due is
owed or owing.As an adverb due is
directly; exactly.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)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 .
Anagrams
* * ----due
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With dirges due , in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
- This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
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Synonyms
* (owed or owing) needed, owing, to be made, required * (appropriate) * expected, forecast * (having reached the scheduled or natural time) expectedDerived terms
* driving without due care and attention * due date * due to * in due time * taxes due * with all due respectAdverb
(en adverb)- The river runs due north for about a mile.
Noun
(en noun)- Give him his due — he is a good actor.
citation
- He will give the devil his due .
- Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
- The key of this infernal pit by due I keep.
