What is the difference between overdub and dub?
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(sound engineering) To record a part along with an already recorded part or parts.
(sound engineering) An overdubbed part.
(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 overdub.
Dub is a related term of overdub.
As verbs the difference between overdub and dub
is that overdub is to record a part along with an already recorded part or parts while dub is to confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.As nouns the difference between overdub and dub
is that overdub is an overdubbed part while dub is a mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.overdub
English
Verb
- The rhythm guitar part is live, but the solo was overdubbed .
Noun
(en noun)- The rhythm guitar part is live, but the solo is an overdub.
See also
* multitrack * (wikipedia "overdub")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 .