(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” .
Remix
Definition:
(v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These fractions were incubated separately or remixed before incubation.
(2) YouTube today is the biggest music service on the planet, thanks to our artists, our fans, our partners and the millions of official music videos, remixes, covers, mashups … you name it,” YouTube’s music content partnerships boss, Anjali Southward, told the Guardian.
(3) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
(4) Now Grossberg has decided to sell the two original safety master tapes from which the album was produced along with various remixes and the seven-inch reel safety master of the original unedited Beatles mono tape that ran during the performances, often when the band were not playing.
(6) Lynch gave the remix his thumbs up, and further collaborations are underway.
(7) Pharrell Williams - Happy (Woodkid Sad Remix) Downbeat 7.
(8) Although MIA recently commissioned Bad Girls remixes featuring Azealia Banks and Missy Elliott, the new record will have "no collabs".
(9) Tim Westwood, Radio 1 DJ "One More Chance (remix)" by Notorious B.I.G.
(10) Massive Attack remixed one of Khan senior’s greatest qawaalis (Dama Dam Mast Qalander) into a dubby club edit; producer Rick Rubin signed up “the master” to his label, American Recordings.
(11) While Your Love became famous as the basis of the Source's hit You Got the Love , Knuckles joined David Morales's Def Mix crew, remixing the likes of Michael Jackson and Madonna.
(12) It plays like a remix of the earlier games rather than a new direction, and if the Montreal team is to deliver further Arkham titles, it can only be hoped they take a bolder approach.
(13) He also remixed their No 1 hit The Reflex and co-produced tracks on 2004’s Astronaut .
(14) He also remixed a number of the artist’s tracks and produced Depeche Mode’s 2001 album, Exciter.
(15) Instead, the passing of the digital economy bill has made a stark choice clear: we can prop up the big record labels for another five years by criminalising a generation, or we can enthusiastically support a creative economic renaissance by providing a framework for reuse, remixing and fair use of creative products.
(16) When the "1st and 2nd fractions" of the column were remixed and used for immunization of chickens, the immune response was as poor as when the chickens were injected with untreated colostrum.
(17) Everywhere we went in Mali, she was treated like visiting royalty, and she created a sensation by taking us to some of the funkier clubs in the capital, dancing to local hip hop and remixes of her own songs.
(18) With the film, we decided to remix the hit theme tune of the Lego Movie 'Everything is Awesome' because we knew Lego fans would get the reference and respond to it.
(19) She DJs as under the name Cosmo, produces and remixes music, and runs a vinyl‑only label called Bitches Brew.
(20) In 1995, a remix of the band's song Missing , taken from their eighth album, Amplified Heart , the previous year, prompted a rerelease, which saw the track become a bestseller around the world.