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Dubbing   /dˈəbɪŋ/   Listen
Dubbing

noun
1.
A new soundtrack that is added to a film.


Dub

verb
(past & past part. dubbed; pres. part. dubbing)
1.
Give a nickname to.  Synonym: nickname.
2.
Provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language.
3.
Raise (someone) to knighthood.  Synonym: knight.



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"Dubbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... servants, established himself in 1625 two miles north of Wessagusset, calling the place Mount Wollaston. With him came that wit, versifier, and prince of roysterers, Thomas Morton, who, after Wollaston had moved on to Virginia, became "lord of misrule." Dubbing his seat Merrymount, drinking, carousing, and corrupting the Indians, affronting the decorous Separatists at Plymouth, Morton later became a serious menace to the peace of Massachusetts Bay. The Pilgrims felt that the coming ...
— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews
... the frame, which came together with very little trouble. The wailes were then got out, and were fitted, each piece being bolted in its allotted place. As the work had already been put together, there was little or no dubbing necessary. Aware that the parts had once been accurately fitted to each other, Mark was careful not to disturb their arrangement by an unnecessary use of the adze, or broad-axe, experimenting and altering the positions of the timbers and planks; but, whenever ...
— The Crater • James Fenimore Cooper


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