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Sprinkle vs Dub - What's the difference?

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Sprinkle is a related term of dub.


As verbs the difference between sprinkle and dub

is that sprinkle is (lb) to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance) while 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 nouns the difference between sprinkle and dub

is that sprinkle is a light covering with a sprinkled substance while 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.

sprinkle

English

Verb

(sprinkl)
  • (lb) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xiv. 16
  • *:And the priest shallsprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
  • (lb) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
  • :
  • *2005 , Justus Roux, Who's Your Daddy? , page 66:
  • *:Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the stars sprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.
  • (lb) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
  • :
  • (lb) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
  • *(Bible), (w) x. 22
  • *:having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
  • Quotations

    * 1893 , Edward F. Bigelow (editor and publisher), The Observer: a Medium of Interchange of Observations for all Students and Lovers of Nature , volume IV, number 4, page 114: *: There is no more beautiful object in the still and shady aisles of the wood than a great patch of the deep green hairy cap moss studded and starred by these little roses that are often scattered over it as thickly as the stars sprinkle the sky. * April 26th, 1899', ''Memorial Day Oration'' of General P. McGlashan, printed in '''1902 in ''Addresses delivered before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah by that association: *: As I laid him back on the litter he threw out his arms and clasped me around my neck, drew me towards him and kissed me, saying: "Colonel, I love you." [...] Unnumbered instances like this might be recounted did the time permit it. They sprinkle the whole four years as the stars sprinkle the sky. * 2010 , Donald E. MacKay, Love Is Stronger Than Death , page 91: *: [...] she will remember his words and gaze at the stars. One dark night when the stars sprinkle the heavens, she would call out to the stars and ask the same questions her benefactor had asked; perhaps she will be favored with answers.

    Derived terms

    * sprinkler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
  • He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
  • A light rain shower.
  • Synonyms

    * (light covering with a sprinkled substance) sprinkling

    Derived terms

    * sugar sprinkles

    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 .

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