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Dob vs. Dub — What's the Difference?

Dob vs. Dub — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dob and Dub

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Dob

To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
I’ll dob on you if you break in.
You dobbed me in! — I never did!

Dub

To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood.

Dob

To do one's share; to contribute.
We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

Dub

To honor with a new title or description.

Dob

To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
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Dub

To give a name to facetiously or playfully; nickname.

Dob

To play truant

Dub

To strike, cut, or rub (timber or leather, for example) so as to make even or smooth.

Dob

In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

Dub

To dress (a fowl).

Dob

A small amount of something, especially paste.
Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

Dub

To execute (a golf stroke, for example) poorly.

Dob

Initialism of date of birth

Dub

To thrust at; poke.

Dub

To beat (a drum).

Dub

To make a thrust.

Dub

To beat on a drum.

Dub

To transfer (recorded material) onto a new recording medium.

Dub

To copy (a record or tape).

Dub

To insert a new soundtrack, often a synchronized translation of the original dialogue, into (a film).

Dub

To add (sound) into a film or tape
Dub in strings behind the vocal.

Dub

An awkward person or player; a bungler.

Dub

The act of dubbing.

Dub

A drumbeat.

Dub

The new sounds added by dubbing.

Dub

A dubbed copy of a tape or record.

Dub

A mostly instrumental style of music originating in Jamaica, produced by remixing existing recordings to emphasize drum and bass rhythms and adding audio effects.

Dub

A puddle or small pool.

Dub

(transitive) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.

Dub

(transitive) To name, to entitle, to call.

Dub

(transitive) To deem.

Dub

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

Dub

(heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.

Dub

To dress with an adze.
To dub a stick of timber smooth

Dub

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

Dub

To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.

Dub

To dress a fishing fly.

Dub

To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

Dub

To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

Dub

To do something badly.

Dub

(golf) To execute a shot poorly.

Dub

To add sound to film or change audio on film.

Dub

To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.

Dub

To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

Dub

To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

Dub

To open or close.

Dub

(rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.

Dub

An unskillful, awkward person.

Dub

A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.

Dub

A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.

Dub

A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.

Dub

A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.

Dub

(countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

Dub

A pool or puddle.

Dub

(slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.

Dub

(slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

Dub

A lock.

Dub

A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

Dub

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

Dub

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

Dub

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
His diadem was dropped downDubbed with stones.

Dub

To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;

Dub

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

Dub

To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

Dub

To add sound to an existing recording, audio or video; - often used with in. The sound may be of any type or of any duration.

Dub

To mix together two or more sound or video recordings to produce a composite recording.

Dub

A blow.

Dub

A pool or puddle.

Dub

Give a nickname to

Dub

Provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language

Dub

Raise (someone) to knighthood;
The Beatles were knighted

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