(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” .
Rub
Definition:
(v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
(v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
(v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
(v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
(v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
(v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
(v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
(v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
(v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
(n.) The act of rubbing; friction.
(n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
(n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
(n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
(n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.
(n.) A chance.
(n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
(2) Rubbed rings, but not intact ones, contracted when Ca2+ was added to a previously Ca2+-free medium containing angiotensin II or adrenaline.
(3) Immediately after eye rubbing the conjunctival epithelium was histologically disrupted and 50% of the mast cells showed evidence of degranulation.
(4) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
(5) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
(6) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
(7) The specific endonuclease Bam HI from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (RUB 500) has been purified to apparent homogeneity.
(8) Ultz, who is also a well-known stage designer, is the only white person in the company - something the play rubs his nose in.
(9) Who was the asshole who threw the bottle?” Matt asked, rubbing his sore spot.
(10) The fibromas were transmitted by intradermal and subcutaneous inoculation and by rubbing the virus preparation into tattoo sites.
(11) With advancing age, the ATP-induced relaxation in the rubbed rings decreased and was abolished.
(12) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association describes “frotteurism” as “recurrent, intense, or arousing sexual urges or fantasies, that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person”.
(13) Rubbed (endothelium-denuded) ring preparations at the age of 4-6 weeks showed a dose-dependent relaxation similar to that of the unrubbed rings.
(14) We found positive reactions in the prick test and rubbing test to the scales of the lizard Egernia cunninghami and others, which the patient kept as house-pets at this time or earlier.
(15) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
(16) Ten rubs occurred in patients with pericardial effusion, five of whom had tamponade.
(17) But this will only rub more salt into the wounds at home.
(18) During each scratch cycle, the monoarticular knee extensor muscle is active when the limb rubs against the stimulated site, and there is rhythmic alternation between hip protractor and hip retractor muscle activity (Robertson et al., 1985).
(19) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.
(20) Did it actually happen, that run of singles so strange and yet so strong that they rose to the higher reaches of the hit parade, rubbing shoulders with Showaddywaddy and the Nolans on Top of the Pops?