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English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus.

The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: st?l, IPA^(key): /sta?l/
• Homophone: stile
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

style (countable and uncountable, plural styles)

1. Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
   1. (historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.
   2. A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.
   3. The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
   4. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.

      Synonym: stylet
   5. (surgery) A kind of surgical instrument with a blunt point, used for exploration.

      Synonym: stylet

   6. (zoology) A small, thin, pointed body part.

      Synonym: stylet

      1. (entomology) A long, slender, bristle-like process near the anal region.

2. (by extension from sense 1.1) A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
   1. A legal or traditional term or formula of words used to address or refer to a person, especially a monarch or a person holding a post or having a title.
3. A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
   1. A particular manner of acting or behaving; (specifically) one regarded as fashionable or skilful; flair, grace.
   2. A particular way in which one grooms, adorns, dresses, or carries oneself; (specifically) a way thought to be attractive or fashionable.
   3. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
   4. (printing, publishing) A set of rules regarding the presentation of text (spelling, typography, the citation of references, etc.) and illustrations that is applied by a publisher to the works it produces.

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)
• stylee (music, slang)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Korean: ??? (seutail)

Related terms

• stylus

Translations

See also

• substance

Verb

style (third-person singular simple present styles, present participle styling, simple past and past participle styled)

1. (transitive) To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style)
2. (transitive, formal) To call or give a name or title to.

   Synonyms: designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
3. (transitive, informal) To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy.
4. (intransitive, US, informal) To act in a way which seeks to show that one possesses style.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• style (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lyest, tyles

French

Alternative forms

• stile (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French stile, from Old French estile, borrowed from Latin stilus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stil/

Noun

style m (plural styles)

1. style (manner of doing something)
2. (botany) style (of a flower)
3. fashion, trend, style
4. (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
5. flair
6. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
7. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
8. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
9. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
10. sort, type; category of things

Synonyms

• (manner of doing): façon, manière
• (artistic characteristic): genre
• (needle of a sundial): aiguille (d'un cadran), gnomon
• (stylus): stylet
• (category): espèce, genre, sorte, type

Derived terms

Further reading

• “style” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?el.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“stile”)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin stylus.

Noun

style

1. Alternative form of stile (“style”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.l?/

Noun

style

1. plural of styl
2. accusative plural of styl
3. vocative plural of styl

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is.?taj.li/, /?staj.li/, /i?.?taj.li/

Adjective

style (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) stylish

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)