Dubbing vs. Knight — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dubbing and Knight
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Dubbing
To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood.
Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.Knighthood finds origins in the Greek hippeis and hoplite (ἱππεῖς) and Roman eques and centurion of classical antiquity.In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility.
Dubbing
To honor with a new title or description.
Knight
A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.
Dubbing
To give a name to facetiously or playfully; nickname.
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Knight
A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.
Dubbing
To strike, cut, or rub (timber or leather, for example) so as to make even or smooth.
Knight
A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.
Dubbing
To dress (a fowl).
Knight
A man belonging to an order or brotherhood.
Dubbing
To execute (a golf stroke, for example) poorly.
Knight
A defender, champion, or zealous upholder of a cause or principle.
Dubbing
To thrust at; poke.
Knight
The devoted champion of a lady.
Dubbing
To beat (a drum).
Knight
Abbr. Kt or N(Games) A chess piece, usually in the shape of a horse's head, that can be moved two squares along a rank and one along a file or two squares along a file and one along a rank. The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces to land on an open square.
Dubbing
To make a thrust.
Knight
To raise (a person) to knighthood.
Dubbing
To beat on a drum.
Knight
(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
Dubbing
To transfer (recorded material) onto a new recording medium.
Knight
(historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
Dubbing
To copy (a record or tape).
Knight
(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Dubbing
To insert a new soundtrack, often a synchronized translation of the original dialogue, into (a film).
Knight
A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
Dubbing
To add (sound) into a film or tape
Dub in strings behind the vocal.
Knight
(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
Dubbing
An awkward person or player; a bungler.
Knight
(literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
Dubbing
The act of dubbing.
Knight
(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
Dubbing
A drumbeat.
Knight
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Dubbing
The new sounds added by dubbing.
Knight
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
Dubbing
A dubbed copy of a tape or record.
Knight
(modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
Dubbing
A mostly instrumental style of music originating in Jamaica, produced by remixing existing recordings to emphasize drum and bass rhythms and adding audio effects.
Knight
(transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.
Dubbing
An application of tallow and oil for dressing leather.
Knight
To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Dubbing
Present participle of dub
Knight
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
Dubbing
The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
Knight
In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.
Dubbing
The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
Knight
A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
Dubbing
A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
Knight
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Dubbing
The body substance of an angler's fly.
Knight
To dub or create (one) a knight; - done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir --.
A soldier, by the honor-giving handOf Cur-de-Lion knighted in the field.
Dubbing
A new soundtrack that is added to a film
Knight
Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
Knight
A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Knight
Raise (someone) to knighthood;
The Beatles were knighted
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