Dub vs Sub - What's the difference?
dub | sub |
(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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*: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.”
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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
A submarine.
A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
(US, informal) A substitute.
(British, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another player part way through the game.
* 1930 , Boy's Live, Philip Scruggs, There Can Be Victory ,
(British, informal, often in plural) Short for subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
(informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.
* 2004 , Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang?
* 2007 , Laurell K Hamilton, The Harlequin
* 2008 , Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex
(Internet, informal) A subtitle.
(computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
* 2002 , Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell
* 2004 , P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET (page 49)
(colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
(colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
(US, informal) To substitute for.
(US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
(British, informal, football) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
(British, informal, football) Less commonly, and often as sub on , to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
(British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
(UK, slang, transitive) To lend.
* 2011 , Rowland Rivron, What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?
(slang) To subscribe.
(BDSM) To take a submissive role.
* Alicia White, Jessica's Breakdown (page 53)
* 2012 , Tiffany Reisz, Little Red Riding Crop
To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
(microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
* 1997 , Marina A. Lynch, S. M. O'Mara (editors), Ali D. Hames, D. Rickwood (series editors), Neuroscience Labfax ,
As verbs the difference between dub and sub
is that dub is to confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword while sub is to substitute for.As nouns the difference between dub and sub
is that dub is a mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed while sub is a submarine.As a preposition sub is
under.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 .
Anagrams
* * ----sub
English
Etymology 1
Shortened form of any of various words beginning sub- , such as submarine, subroutine, substitute, subscription. The sandwich is so called because the bun's cylindrical shape resembles the shape of a submarine.Noun
(en noun)- We can get subs at that deli.
- With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs .
- She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
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- At any other school you would be playing varsity, and Wallace has you pigeon-holed on the subs'." "Maybe he has his reasons," Jim replied. "And he hasn't pigeon-holed me on the ' subs yet — not this season.
- ...roleplay where a sub or bottom takes care of a top's bodily and hygiene needs...
- "It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said. He nodded.
- Typically a dom and a sub have a more or less standard routine that they like to go through all the time.
- I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
- The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.
- So far, all the subs and functions that we have used have been those built into the system, or those written to handle events from controls...
Synonyms
* (submarine sandwich) grinder, hoagieHypernyms
* (submarine sandwich) sandwichVerb
(subb)- He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.
- ''He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.
- I kept up the pleasantries as we were drying our hands and, realizing I didn't have any change for the lodger, I asked him, one drummer to another like, if he could sub me a quid for the dish.
- You've never subbed before. Jessica will be expecting a man on stage that follows orders and enjoys what she's going to be doing. Do you want to be spanked? Possibly whipped?
- Wasn't like she'd never subbed before. She'd been a sub longer than she'd been a Dominatrix–ten years she'd spent in a collar.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sub.Verb
page 166,
- Ensure that gloves are worn when handling subbed' slides. Although the following protocol describes '''subbing with gelatin, slides may also be coated with either 3-(triethoxysilyl-)propylamine (TESPA) or poly-L-lysine for ''in situ hybridization.