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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