(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” .
Knight
Definition:
(n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
(n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
(n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
(n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
(n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
(v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(4) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(5) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(6) He was later knighted for services to community relations.)
(7) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
(8) Alfred was previously portrayed by Michael Caine in Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy and the late Michael Gough in the earlier Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies.
(9) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
(10) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
(11) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(12) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
(13) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
(14) In 1980, Knight and Griffen developed the "double-staple" technique, using a circular stapler to transect a linear rectal staple line.
(15) The original omitted Buddhism from a list of religions with more followers in England and Wales than the number of people who described themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2011 census.
(16) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(17) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
(18) Richard Knights Liverpool • As an ex-headteacher who deserted the profession when it became evident that Ofsted was the untouchable body by which the government ensured its will would prevail in schools, I hope that your paper pursues its investigation into the manner in which Ofsted operates .
(19) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
(20) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.