different between dip vs dub

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?p, IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjan?; see *daupijan? (“to dip”). Related to deep.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
   • 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid

     the dip of oars in unison

4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. A dip stick.
6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

   I'm going for a dip before breakfast.

7. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
   • 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633

     The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.

8. A sauce for dipping.

   This onion dip is just scrumptious.

9. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. (archaic) A dipped candle.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)

11. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader
12. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
13. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
16. (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

• lucky dip

Translations

Verb

dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.

   Dip your biscuit into your tea.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

3. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.

   Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

5. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

   “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”

6. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

7. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

9. (transitive) To immerse for baptism.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

   • c. 1722, Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer

     […] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

10. (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
11. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

    • He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

12. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

    to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water

13. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
14. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

    • Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

15. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

    Strata of rock dip.

17. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
18. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
19. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.

    He dipped out of the room so fast.

20. (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from dippy.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A foolish person.

Derived terms

• dipshit

Etymology 3

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (informal) A diplomat.

Related terms

• dip locker

Anagrams

• DPI, IDP, PDI, PID, dpi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Hyphenation: dip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

dip m (plural dippen, diminutive dipje n)

1. A dip (sauce for dipping).

   Synonym: dipsaus

Derived terms

• discodip

Noun

dip m (plural dips, diminutive dipje n)

1. (colloquial) A minor depression, a short-lived sadness.
2. A minor economic setback, no worse than a short, minor recession.

Derived terms

• dinsdagdip

Polish

Etymology

From English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dip/

Noun

dip m inan

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

Further reading

• dip in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

dip m (plural dips)

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (dip), from Proto-Turkic *t?p (“bottom; root”).

Noun

dip

1. bottom
2. ground

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban (“to knight by striking with a sword”) perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber, adober (“equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), from Frankish *dubban, from Proto-Germanic *dubjan? (“to fit”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?- (“plug, peg, wedge”).

Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c]

   • As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
3. (transitive) To deem.
   • 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

     A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

   • His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
   1. To dress with an adze.

   2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

   3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
      • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures

        When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow

   4. To dress a fishing fly.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

Synonyms

• (to confer knighthood): knight
• (to name, to entitle, to call.): designate, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (to deem): consider, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
• (to clothe or invest): deck out, embellish; see also Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

Etymology 2

1505-1515 This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

   • Now the drum dubb's.

2. To do something badly.
3. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.

Etymology 3

1885-90; Imitative, see also flub, flubdub

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]
   • 1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor (volumes 2-3, page 135)

     The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

Etymology 4

From a shortening of the word double.

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

Derived terms

• overdub

See also

• ADR
• revoice

Translations

Noun

dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs)

1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 5

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh d?r (“water”).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (Britain, dialect) A pool or puddle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 6

From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

Etymology 7

From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).

Verb

dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To open or close.

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A lock.
2. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

Derived terms

Etymology 8

Noun

dub (plural dubs)

1. Clipping of double-u.
   • 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books (?ISBN), page 119:

     I once met a gaggle of Aussies who'd paid thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for airfare and registration to attend an annual Apple convention called the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC—or, in this crowd, “Dub Dub.

   • 1997, Nelson Howell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Visual InterDev, Que Pub (?ISBN)

     World Wide Web or WWW Pronouncing this “ dub dub dub " ( with no rub - a ) will definitely establish you as an insider . This is a graphical presentation of information with hyperlinks . It was created at CERN in Switzerland as a method of ...

Anagrams

• BDU, BUD, Bud, DBU, bud

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech dub, from Proto-Slavic *d?b? (“oak tree, oak”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dup]
• Hyphenation: dub
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: dup

Noun

dub m inan

1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• dub in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dub in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• bud

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dup/

Noun

dub m

1. oak

Declension

Further reading

• dub in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• dub in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?b? (“oak tree, oak”)

Noun

dub m

1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: dub

Further reading

• “dub”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[3], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb?- (“black, deep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duv/

Adjective

dub

1. black
2. morally dark, dire, gloomy, melancholy

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: dubh
• Scottish Gaelic: dubh
• Manx: doo

Noun

dub n (genitive dubo)

1. black pigment, ink
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a10

     ó dub glosses atramento

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 13^d1

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 217^a

2. gall

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “dub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

From Proto-Zapotec *tokwa?.

Noun

dub

1. agave

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 14, 26

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?b?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?anw-.

Noun

dub m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Croatia, archaic) oak (wood)
2. (Croatia, archaic) oak tree
   • c. 1840, Dragutin Rakovac (translating Samuel Tomášik), Hej, Slaveni:

Synonyms

• hrast

Derived terms

• Dubrovnik

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?b?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dup/

Noun

dub m (genitive singular duba, nominative plural duby, genitive plural dubov, declension pattern of dub)

1. oak, oak tree

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• dub in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Noun

dub m (plural dubs)

1. (music) dub

Volapük

Preposition

dub

1. due to, because of

Derived terms

• dubä

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /tup?/
• Tone numbers: dub⁸
• Hyphenation: dub

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *dup? (“to pound”); cognate with Thai ??? (túp), Lao ??? (thup), Shan ????? (th??p). Also compare Cantonese ???? (dap6, “to pound; to strike”).

Verb

dub (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ????, old orthography dub)

1. to hit; to strike

   Synonym: moeb

2. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
3. to castrate (a male water buffalo)

Etymology 2

Verb

dub (old orthography dub)

1. to harrow (a paddy)