Meaning

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

    zum Ritter schlagen

    посвяща́ть в ры́цариposvjaščátʹ v rýcari

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

    nennen, bezeichnen, rufen

    дать про́звище/кли́чкуdatʹ prózvišče/klíčku, окрести́тьokrestítʹ, нарека́тьnarekátʹ

  3. (transitive)To deem.

  4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

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

    To dress with an adze.

    to dub a stick of timber smooth

  6. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

    raise (someone) to knighthood

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

  8. To dress a fishing fly.

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

  10. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

  11. To do something badly.

  12. To execute a shot poorly.

Examples

42 sentences
  1. I don't like watching dubbed movies.

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  2. Tom doesn't like watching dubbed movies.

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  3. I don't like dubbed movies.

    ruЯ не люблю дублированные фильмы.

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  4. The movie's dubbing was really bad.

    deDie Synchronisierung des Films war sehr schlecht.

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  5. The film's dubbing wasn't very good.

    ruДубляж фильма был не очень хороший.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to replace soundtrack of a film with translation:
Русский
By meaning 4
to confer knighthood:
to name, to entitle, to call:
to add sound to film or change audio on film:
to make a copy from an original or master audio tape:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to confer knighthood:
to name, to entitle, to call:
to replace soundtrack of a film with translation:

Origin

From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword,

From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).

From a shortening of the word double.

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

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Forms

dubs, dubbing, dubbed, dubbed
Base formdub · to dub
3rd person singulardubs
Present participledubbing
Past simpledubbed
Past participledubbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydub
he, she, itdubs

Past simpleLesson

all personsdubbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave dubbed
he, she, ithas dubbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dub

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

54 synonyms

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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