dub
part of speech
verb (dub, dubs, dubbed, dubbing); noun (dub, uncountable — music)
meaning for a pupil
1) To dub a film or TV show means to replace the voices with voices in another language, or to add sounds to it. tree →
2) To dub someone means to give them a nickname or a name: «They dubbed him the Wizard». tree →
3) (history) To dub a knight means to make someone a knight by touching his shoulders with a sword. tree →
4) (music) Dub is a kind of reggae music from Jamaica with lots of echo and bass. tree →
5) Dub can also be a word that copies the sound of a drum beating. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life children watch cartoons that are dubbed into English from Japanese or other languages. In stories and the news, people or things are «dubbed» with nicknames. In history lessons, a king dubbed knights. It tells the reader something was named or given new voices.
examples
- The film was dubbed into French. tree →
- Newspapers dubbed her «the Queen of the Court». tree →
- The king dubbed him Sir Lancelot. tree →
- Do you prefer anime dubbed or with subtitles? tree →
- The actor dubbed the voice of the lion. tree →
- The class dubbed our hamster «Mr Fluff». tree →
- Dub music has a deep, booming bass. tree →
- "Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!" tree →
note
Double the b: dubbed, dubbing. Dubbing (new voices) is different from subtitles (written words on screen). «Dubbed» often goes with a name in quotation marks. In slang, «dub» (USA) can mean a win (from «W»), as in «We got the dub».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dub» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.