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

  1. Dub as a verb (transitive):

    To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.

  2. Dub as a verb (transitive):

    To name, to entitle, to call.

  3. Dub as a verb (transitive):

    To deem.

  4. Dub as a verb:

    To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

  5. 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"

  6. Dub as a verb:

    To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

  1. Dub as a verb:

    To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.

  2. Dub as a verb:

    To do something badly.

  3. Dub as a verb:

    In golf, to execute a shot poorly.

  1. Dub as a noun (rare):

    A blow, thrust, or poke.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hudibras"

  1. Dub as a noun (now, _, historical):

    An unskillful, awkward person.

  1. Dub as a verb:

    To add sound to film or change audio on film.

  2. Dub as a verb:

    To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.

  3. Dub as a verb:

    To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

  4. Dub as a verb:

    To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

  1. Dub as a noun (music):

    A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.

  2. Dub as a noun (music):

    A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.

  3. 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.

  4. Dub as a noun (slang):

    A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.

  5. Dub as a noun:

    The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; dubbing.

  1. Dub as a noun (UK, dialect):

    A pool or puddle.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Halliwell"

  1. Dub as a noun (slang):

    A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.

  2. Dub as a noun (slang):

    A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

  1. Dub as a verb (obsolete, UK, thieves):

    To open or close.

  1. Dub as a noun (obsolete, UK, thieves):

    A lock.

  2. Dub as a noun (obsolete, UK, thieves):

    A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

  1. Term as a noun:

    Limitation, restriction or regulation.

  2. 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."

  3. Term as a noun:

    That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

  4. 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."

  5. 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."

  6. Term as a noun:

    Relations among people.

    Examples:

    "We are on friendly terms with each other."

  7. Term as a noun:

    Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.

  8. 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"

  9. Term as a noun (of a patent):

    The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.

  10. Term as a noun (archaic):

    A menstrual period.

  11. 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 )."

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Term as a noun (architecture):

    A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.

  15. Term as a noun (nautical):

    A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek J. Knowles"

  1. Term as a verb:

    To phrase a certain way; to name or call.

  1. Term as an adjective (medicine, colloquial):

    Born or delivered at term.

    Examples:

    "term neonate"

  1. Term as a noun (computing, informal):

    terminal

  1. Term as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To terminate one's employment

  1. Term as a noun:

    One whose employment has been terminated