dubbed

1. 1
   adjective

   Describing film, TV, or game audio whose original soundtrack has been replaced with a synchronized translation in another language.

   The dubbed release swaps the original Japanese dialogue for English voice actors.

   Many viewers find dubbed broadcasts easier to follow than subtitled ones.

   Note

   Translation studies uses this word as much as film does. Scholars write of dubbed dialogue and dubbed speech, and study how new voices fit the old lip movements. Its everyday opposite is subtitled. George Pierce's Introducing Translational Studies (2018) observes that most foreign films reach theaters undubbed, while animated films and some made for children come with a dubbed version.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of dub.

   Critics dubbed the film an instant classic.

   The studio dubbed the series into five languages before release.

   Note

   One spelling serves both the simple past (critics dubbed it) and the participle (has dubbed, was dubbed). In the naming sense, as in dubbed it a classic, the verb is informal. The verb behind this form does more work than the adjectives suggest. Besides knighting, naming and deeming, it can mean to adorn, to dress timber with an adze, or to raise a nap on cloth with teasels.

3. 3
   adjective

   Made a knight through a formal ceremony of investiture.

   The freshly dubbed knight rose and took his place among the nobles.

   Every dubbed champion swore an oath of loyalty to the crown.

   Note

   This sense almost always pairs with knight, and often with newly: the newly dubbed knight. The phrase marks a knight made by ceremony. That is why Don Quixote, in John Bowle's 1881 translation of Cervantes, frets that he is no dubbed knight and may not fight another. Hyonjin Kim's The Knight Without the Sword (2000) notes that Thomas Malory names himself a dubbed knight.

4. 4
   adjective

   Reworked into a new mix of an existing recording; remixed.

   The dubbed track stripped out the vocals and pushed the bass forward.

   DJs spun dubbed versions of the singles late into the night.

   Note

   In the studio the word covers layering as well as mixing. Earle Hagen, in Advanced Techniques for Film Scoring (1990), describes ending up with six dubbed tracks that were then dubbed down to one. Hence dubbed guitar or a dubbed effect: sound built up or combined in production. Do not confuse it with the translated-soundtrack meaning, which replaces voices rather than reworking a mix.

5. 5
   adjective

   Poorly executed as a result of a mishit swing.

   Her dubbed approach landed well short of the green.

   One dubbed drive cost him the hole and the match.

   Note

   Golfers apply this word to a stroke that goes wrong in the swing. It sits almost always before shot or the name of a stroke: a dubbed shot, a dubbed drive. Joseph Amato's Bypass recalls an aunt who threw her clubs into a canal after one. Hand surgeons use it too: William Cooney's The Wrist links dubbed shots to injuries of the lead wrist.

6. 6
   adjective

   Made with a body of fur, feathers, or synthetic fibers wound around the shank of a fishing hook.

   The dubbed body of the fly trapped tiny air bubbles underwater.

   She fished a dubbed caddis pattern through the riffle.

   Note

   Fly tiers use this word for the body or for the whole fly: a dubbed body, dubbed flies, a tightly dubbed body that stays thin. The material, itself called dubbing, is twisted onto the tying thread and wound along the shank. Terry Hellekson's Fish Flies (2005) looks to Dame Juliana Berners's patterns for a clue to the first dubbed flies on record.

7. 7
   adjective

   Of a bird, having had its comb and the fleshy wattles under the beak removed.

   The dubbed gamecock showed smooth scars where its comb and wattles had once been.

   Breeders often keep dubbed roosters in cold climates, since the trimmed heads resist frostbite.

   Note

   Poultry breeders and researchers use this term, usually in the phrase dubbed birds, set against undubbed or non-dubbed ones. Trials judged the practice by egg-laying. George F. Godfrey reported in 1961 that dubbed pullets laid 1 to 2 percent more eggs. Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines records a cost: in temperatures above 80°F, the dubbed birds suffered most.

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   adjective

   Waterproofed by treatment with a mixture of oil and tallow.

   The dubbed harness stayed supple right through the wet season.

   Soldiers relied on dubbed boots during long winter marches.

   Similaroiled, waterproofed

   Note

   Tanners use this term, mostly in the phrases dubbed leather and dubbed hides. The dressing is dubbin, oil and tallow worked into the hide. Pennsylvania Angler (1976) describes dubbed hides stretched to full width, partly dried, then given another coat of codfish oil. The finished leather can still be shaped: Donato Sartori made a full mask of it in 1984.

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