What is the difference between dubstep and dub?
dubstep | dub | Derived terms |
A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass.
* 2002 , Tricia Romano, "Electro Trash," Village Voice , July 16
* 2006 , Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
* 2007 , Michael E Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae?
* 2008 , Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
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(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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, 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
Dub is a derived term of dubstep.
As nouns the difference between dubstep and dub
is that dubstep is a genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass while dub is a mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.As a verb dub is
to confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.dubstep
English
Noun
(-)- "Genres are so boring," said Scotsman Broon, one-half of the tech-house duo, as he scanned the cover of XLR8R magazine hyping "Dubstep " while shopping at Etherea record store.
- ...of course, a lot of grime producers and dubstep producers freely admit to FL being their primary tool, and the software is increasingly being used...
- ...reflect broader class strategies within English society, and the same can be said for more recent genre mutations such as dubstep and grime.
- Acid house, hard-core, drum 'n' bass, UK garage, grime, and dubstep are just a handful of now worldwide underground movements that developed in this way.
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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 .