What's the difference between address and dub?

Address


Definition:

  • (v.) To aim; to direct.
  • (v.) To prepare or make ready.
  • (v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
  • (v.) To clothe or array; to dress.
  • (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
  • (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.
  • (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
  • (v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
  • (v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
  • (v. i.) To prepare one's self.
  • (v. i.) To direct speech.
  • (v. t.) Act of preparing one's self.
  • (v. t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
  • (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
  • (v. t.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
  • (v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
  • (v. t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
  • (v. t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
  • (2) 2009 Visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly.
  • (3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (4) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
  • (5) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
  • (6) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
  • (7) There is evidence that some of these problems are being addressed as new research initiatives are being undertaken both nationally and internationally that are relevant to both AIDS and sexuality.
  • (8) This article addresses the special problems raised by patients who resist medical feeding.
  • (9) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
  • (10) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
  • (11) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
  • (12) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
  • (13) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.
  • (14) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (15) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
  • (16) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (17) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (18) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
  • (19) The general efficacy of this intraocular lens compared with other anterior chamber lenses was not addressed in this study.
  • (20) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.

Dub


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
  • (v. t.) To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
  • (v. t.) To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
  • (v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;
  • (v. t.) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
  • (v. t.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
  • (v. t.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
  • (v. t.) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
  • (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
  • (n.) A blow.
  • (n.) A pool or puddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (2) Last week at a press conference Putin defended the legislation as an appropriate response to the Magnitsky Act, which he dubbed an "anti-Russian" law.
  • (3) The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative.
  • (4) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
  • (5) Dubbed France's MP for London, Lemaire represents one of the largest populations of French nationals outside France .
  • (6) DUB diagnosis requires careful exclusion of organic pathology through a detailed history, complete physical examination, and a complete blood count.
  • (7) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
  • (8) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
  • (9) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (10) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
  • (11) The prime minister will announce that £400m from dormant bank accounts will be used to help finance the scheme, dubbed Big Society Capital.
  • (12) Calais's youths: the unaccompanied minors left in political limbo Read more Dubs, who was saved from the Nazis and brought to London in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport programme, has led a parliamentary campaign to take in youngsters from camps near Calais and elsewhere in Europe who, he says, are hugely vulnerable to exploitation, sexual violence and disease.
  • (13) The incident – dubbed by protesters the “137”, after the number of shots that were fired at the victims’ car – became a cause célèbre.
  • (14) Some within the party have dubbed it the government's "poll tax", the policy that proved so damaging to Margaret Thatcher's last government.
  • (15) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
  • (16) This was dubbed a "death tax" by the Tories, prompting the collapse of all-party talks.
  • (17) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
  • (18) He suggested that the intelligence agencies were suffering because of the failure, largely due to Liberal Democrat opposition, to give them more powers in what is dubbed a “snoopers’ charter”.
  • (19) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
  • (20) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .

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