Dub vs Dubby - What's the difference?
dub | dubby | see also |
(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= (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.
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
(music) In the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
* {{quote-book, 2005, title=Rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984, author=Simon Reynolds
, passage=What's striking about the record is how PiL assimilated both the dread feel of roots reggae and the dub aesthetic of subtraction (stripping out instruments, using empty space), without ever resorting to obviously dubby production effects like reverb and echo.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital, author=Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins
, passage=As this "song with no words" rose from its dubby beginning to a roaring Crescendo, MacKayre sang,
(dated, dialectal) stubby, stumpy; Lacking shapeliness or finesse.
* {{quote-book, 1863, title=All the year round, author=
, passage=Why is its bring an object to be perpetually plucked and pinched with dubby fingers?}}
* {{quote-book, 1868, title=So as by Fire, author=Camilla Willian
, passage=I look just like all short, dubby, light-complexioned girls.}}
(dated, dialectal) wet and muddy; dirty
* {{quote-book, 1832, title=Stanley Buxton: or, The schoolfellows, author=John Galt
, passage="Set the umbrella ready, and my pattens at the door, for I fear the roads are dubby."}}
* {{quote-book, 1994, Blackden By Duncan McLean
, passage=I was going to stand on it, but my boots are a bit dubby}}
Dub is a see also of dubby.
In music|lang=en terms the difference between dub and dubby
is that dub is (music) a growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music while dubby is (music) in the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.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.As an adjective dubby is
(music) in the style of ; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.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
* * ----dubby
English
Adjective
(-)citation