Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making a knight; the accolade.
- noun Dress; ornament; trappings.
- noun The act of striking, cutting, rubbing, or dressing, so as to make smooth or otherwise adapted to a purpose.
- noun Hence A preparation of grease for use in currying leather.
- noun The materials used for making the body of a fishing-fly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
- noun The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
- noun A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
- noun The body substance of an angler's fly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
replacement of avoice part in afilm , particularly with a translation. - noun The
transfer ofrecorded music from one medium to another. - noun Alternative spelling of
dubbin . - verb Present participle of
dub .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a new soundtrack that is added to a film
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Examples
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That being bad, the dubbing is a piece of crap, what makes it even worst.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Simpsons film looking good 2007
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I know that a lot of it depends on what the dubbing is made from.
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I know that a lot of it depends on what the dubbing is made from.
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A former child actor who had worked in radio, Mr. Fernandez was specializing in English dubbing of foreign films and animation when he was asked to adapt "Speed Racer," which first appeared in Japan as "Mach Go Go Go."
Actor and writer Peter Fernandez, 83, dies; brought 'Speed Racer' to U.S. 2010
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I did, but according to all sources I've seen, the English dubbing is lousy.
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Actually, its ROOAARRR is a fake: it was created in dubbing studio …
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For instance, intentionally misleading readers as to the identity of her sources: other journalists, meanwhile, have no hesitation in dubbing unnamed partisans activists “bipartisan experts”.
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All that is relevant here is one method of term dubbing associated with that theory.
Rigid Designators LaPorte, Joseph 2006
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The English dubbing is every bit as wonderful as I remember it, and Sage dutifully sat through most of it (which, for an 11-month-old, is no mean feat).
Archive 2003-01-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Also, for those who don’t know, it was filmed with the motion capture people speaking english, (but their voices not used in the film) so that the lip-synching looked right with the Enligh dubbing, which means the French dubbing is bit off.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This movie looks incredicool! 2006
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