What's the difference between dub and dubb?

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” .

Dubb


Definition:

  • (n.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dubbs, D. R. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and W. F. Scherer.

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