dubbed

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Definition of dubbed

8 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Having had the original soundtrack replaced with a synchronized translation.
    “This shows that audiovisual constraints do not always result in loss, but might also contribute to the pretended spontaneity of dubbed dialogue.”
    “In theaters, most foreign films are not dubbed, while animated films and some films meant for children offer a dubbed version.”
    “The dubbed statement, however, seems to reflect different connotations.”
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adj

  1. Having had the original soundtrack replaced with a synchronized translation.
    “This shows that audiovisual constraints do not always result in loss, but might also contribute to the pretended spontaneity of dubbed dialogue.”
    “In theaters, most foreign films are not dubbed, while animated films and some films meant for children offer a dubbed version.”
    “The dubbed statement, however, seems to reflect different connotations.”
  2. Remixed.
    “Eventually we wound up with six dubbed tracks which we dubbed down to one.”
    “In this particular pice we hear this connection in the sound production, and also when the rhythm is broken up in the second part to create an effect reminiscent of an electronically-dubbed effect produced with sequencers.”
    “The front door was opening, the dubbed effect of a creak stretched with the ominously slow swing.”
    “Johnny Nash had already had a hit with it (CBS, 1972) and this precise, neat version, with what sounds like more dubbed guitar, has an ease that Nash didn't achieve.”
  3. Having been ceremonially invested (with knighthood).
    “For it came to his memory that he was no dubbed knight, and, according to the law of chivalry, he neither could nor ought to take up arms with any knight; and even though he were one, he should carry white armour as a virgin knight, without device on his shield, until he had won it by his prowess.”
    “Whence it appears the escuyer carried ornamented arms, though probably the rule that he was not to have them gilded came into force after the time of the Saxon document on 'Ranks,' and when the practice of making 'dubbed' knights arose.”
    “Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, completed between 1469 and 1470, is unprecedented among Middle English romances in that the author identifies himself as a dubbed knight (Works 180, 845, 1037, 1154, 1260) .”
    “The newly dubbed knight would fight either under his own banner (a knight banneret) , or under that of another (a knight bachelor), and he would be accompanied in battle by his own pages and squires, along with other servants.”
  4. Having a body made from fur, feathers, and/or synthetic fibers wrapped around the hook shank.
    “It is altogether a mistake to suppose that large flies are required for large rivers; on the contrary, with the exception of the Palmers, small hackle flies will be found to answer best, these, together with the Black, Blue and Dun Midges, (Spring and Autumn excepted), have a decided advantage in general over dubbed or hackle winged flies.”
    “This makes for an extremely thin, tightly dubbed body.”
    “Dame Juliana Berners gives us a clue about the first dubbed flies of record when she introduces her fly patterns as follows:”
  5. Having had the comb and wattles removed.
    “Messrs. Bicknell, Babcock, Sharp, Pierce and Drevenstedt were present at that meeting, and there was but little discussion or difference of opinion regarding the dubbed or undubbed birds.”
    “these very dubbed birds were some of the fittest stock at the end of the Test and looked as if they would carry on laying at this rate for a good time yet.”
    “Also note that in 11 of the 14 tirals, the dubbed birds laid more than the non-dubbed birds.”
    “On the other hand, in temperatures of more than 80 deg. F. the dubbed birds suffered most.”
  6. Poorly executed; mis-swung.
    “She also told me how my dad, no athlete, played tennis on the island, and how her favorite aunt, Aunt May — a nurse and a woman well ahead of her time — threw her golf clubs in one of the island's canals when one of her dubbed shots went into the water.”
    “For those of us who play a sport for fun, it is not the missed baskets that bring us back to the basketball court or the dubbed golf shots back to the golf course.”
    “In golf, it tends to occur with dubbed shots affecting the lead wrist (left wrist in a right-handed golfer).”
  7. Waterproofed with a mixture of oil and tallow.
    “The supply of Swedish dubbed leather and sole leather corresponded to a great extent to the demand.”
    “The dubbed hides then were stretched. their full width and when partly dried (most tanneries had a drying loft or second floor) they received another coating of codfish oil .”
    “Motherhood, a gestural structure ("total mask") in dubbed leather, created by Donato Sartori at Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuale, Abano Terme, 1984”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of dub

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