The difference between Dub and Term
When used as nouns, dub means a blow, thrust, or poke, whereas term means limitation, restriction or regulation.
When used as verbs, dub means to confer knighthood, whereas term means to phrase a certain way.
Term is also adjective with the meaning: born or delivered at term.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dub and Term
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Dub as a verb (transitive):
To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
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Dub as a verb (transitive):
To name, to entitle, to call.
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Dub as a verb (transitive):
To deem.
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Dub as a verb:
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
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Dub as a verb:
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab. To dress with an adze. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it. To dress a fishing fly.
Examples:
"to dub a stick of timber smooth"
"rfquotek Halliwell"
"rfquotek Tomlinson"
"rfquotek Halliwell"
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Dub as a verb:
To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
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Dub as a verb:
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
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Dub as a verb:
To do something badly.
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Dub as a verb:
In golf, to execute a shot poorly.
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Dub as a noun (rare):
A blow, thrust, or poke.
Examples:
"rfquotek Hudibras"
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Dub as a noun (now, _, historical):
An unskillful, awkward person.
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Dub as a verb:
To add sound to film or change audio on film.
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Dub as a verb:
To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
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Dub as a verb:
To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
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Dub as a verb:
To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
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Dub as a noun (music):
A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
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Dub as a noun (music):
A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
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Dub as a noun (music):
A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
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Dub as a noun (slang):
A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
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Dub as a noun:
The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; dubbing.
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Dub as a noun (UK, dialect):
A pool or puddle.
Examples:
"rfquotek Halliwell"
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Dub as a noun (slang):
A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
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Dub as a noun (slang):
A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
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Dub as a verb (obsolete, UK, thieves):
To open or close.
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Dub as a noun (obsolete, UK, thieves):
A lock.
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Dub as a noun (obsolete, UK, thieves):
A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.
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Term as a noun:
Limitation, restriction or regulation.
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Term as a noun:
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
Examples:
"Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing."
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Term as a noun:
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
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Term as a noun (geometry, archaic):
A point, line, or superficies that limits.
Examples:
"A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."
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Term as a noun:
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Examples:
"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science."
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Term as a noun:
Relations among people.
Examples:
"We are on friendly terms with each other."
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Term as a noun:
Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
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Term as a noun:
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
Examples:
"He was [[sentenced]] to a term of six years in [[prison]]."
"near-term, mid-term and long-term goals"
"the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt"
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Term as a noun (of a patent):
The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
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Term as a noun (archaic):
A menstrual period.
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Term as a noun (mathematics):
Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
Examples:
"All the terms of this sum cancel out."
"One only term is odd nobr in ( 12; 3; 4 )."
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Term as a noun (logic):
The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
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Term as a noun (astrology):
An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
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Term as a noun (architecture):
A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
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Term as a noun (nautical):
A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
Examples:
"rfquotek J. Knowles"
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Term as a verb:
To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
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Term as an adjective (medicine, colloquial):
Born or delivered at term.
Examples:
"term neonate"
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Term as a noun (computing, informal):
terminal
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Term as a verb (ambitransitive):
To terminate one's employment
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Term as a noun:
One whose employment has been terminated