dubbed

• IPA^(key): /dʌbd/
• Rhymes: -ʌbd

dubbed

1. (film, television, video games) Having had the original soundtrack replaced with a synchronized translation.
   • 2016, Andrea Esser, ‎Iain Robert Smith, ‎Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Media Across Borders: Localising TV, Film and Video Games, page 137:

     This shows that audiovisual constraints do not always result in loss, but might also contribute to the pretended spontaneity of dubbed dialogue.

   • 2018, George Pierce, Introducing Translational Studies, page 181:

     In theaters, most foreign films are not dubbed, while animated films and some films meant for children offer a dubbed version.

   • 2019, Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán, The Prosody of Dubbed Speech: Beyond the Character's Words, page 121:

     The dubbed statement, however, seems to reflect different connotations.

2. (sound engineering) Remixed.
   • 1990, Earle Hagen, Advanced Techniques for Film Scoring: A Complete Text, page ix:

     Eventually we wound up with six dubbed tracks which we dubbed down to one.

   • 1996, Fékrou Kidane, The Olympic Games and Music, page 73:

     In this particular pice we hear this connection in the sound production, and also when the rhythm is broken up in the second part to create an effect reminiscent of an electronically-dubbed effect produced with sequencers.

   • 2010, Susan Lewis, Cruel Venus, page 412:

     The front door was opening, the dubbed effect of a creak stretched with the ominously slow swing.

   • 2011, Ian McCann, ‎Harry Hawke, Bob Marley: The Complete Guide to his Music:

     Johnny Nash had already had a hit with it (CBS, 1972) and this precise, neat version, with what sounds like more dubbed guitar, has an ease that Nash didn't achieve.

3. Having been ceremonially invested (with knighthood).
   • 1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ‎(John Bowle, translator), The ingenious knight, don Quixote de la Mancha, page 19:

     For it came to his memory that he was no dubbed knight, and, according to the law of chivalry, he neither could nor ought to take up arms with any knight; and even though he were one, he should carry white armour as a virgin knight, without device on his shield, until he had won it by his prowess.

   • 1892, Hubert Lewis, ‎Sir John Edward Lloyd, The Ancient Laws of Wales, page 349:

     Whence it appears the escuyer carried ornamented arms, though probably the rule that he was not to have them gilded came into force after the time of the Saxon document on 'Ranks,' and when the practice of making 'dubbed' knights arose.

   • 2000, Hyonjin Kim, The Knight Without the Sword, page 1:

     Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, completed between 1469 and 1470, is unprecedented among Middle English romances in that the author identifies himself as a dubbed knight (Works 180, 845, 1037, 1154, 1260) .

   • 2008, Alan Baker, The Knight: A Portrait of Europe's Warrior Elite:

     The newly dubbed knight would fight either under his own banner (a knight banneret) , or under that of another (a knight bachelor), and he would be accompanied in battle by his own pages and squires, along with other servants.

4. (of a fishing fly) Having a body made from fur, feathers, and/or synthetic fibers wrapped around the hook shank.
   • 1858, R. Lakeland, The Teesdale Angler, page 95:

     It is altogether a mistake to suppose that large flies are required for large rivers; on the contrary, with the exception of the Palmers, small hackle flies will be found to answer best, these, together with the Black, Blue and Dun Midges, (Spring and Autumn excepted), have a decided advantage in general over dubbed or hackle winged flies.

   • 2003, Ed Engle, Tying Small Flies, page 86:

     This makes for an extremely thin, tightly dubbed body.

   • 2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 111:

     Dame Juliana Berners gives us a clue about the first dubbed flies of record when she introduces her fly patterns as follows:

5. (poultry) Having had the comb and wattles removed.
   • 1891 January 23, “Poultry and Pigeons”, in The Fanciers' Journal, volume 6, number 5, page 73:

     Messrs. Bicknell, Babcock, Sharp, Pierce and Drevenstedt were present at that meeting, and there was but little discussion or difference of opinion regarding the dubbed or undubbed birds.

   • 1960, Poultry Industry - Volume 26, Issues 311-336, page 961:

     these very dubbed birds were some of the fittest stock at the end of the Test and looked as if they would carry on laying at this rate for a good time yet.

   • 1961, George F. Godfrey, “Reasearch Shows that Dubbed Pullets Lay 1 to 2 Percent More Eggs than Non-dubbed Pullets”, in Poultry Tribune: Midwest Edition, volume 67, page 17:

     Also note that in 11 of the 14 tirals, the dubbed birds laid more than the non-dubbed birds.

   • 2013, Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines, page 82:

     On the other hand, in temperatures of more than 80 deg. F. the dubbed birds suffered most.

6. (golf, of a shot) Poorly executed; mis-swung.
   • 2000, Joseph Anthony Amato, Bypass: A Memoir, page 32:

     She also told me how my dad, no athlete, played tennis on the island, and how her favorite aunt, Aunt May — a nurse and a woman well ahead of her time — threw her golf clubs in one of the island's canals when one of her dubbed shots went into the water.

   • 2002, William Becker, How to OD... and Live to Tell About It, page 141:

     For those of us who play a sport for fun, it is not the missed baskets that bring us back to the basketball court or the dubbed golf shots back to the golf course.

   • 2010, William P. Cooney, The Wrist: Diagnosis and Operative Treatment, page 1172:

     In golf, it tends to occur with dubbed shots affecting the lead wrist (left wrist in a right-handed golfer).

7. (leatherwork) Waterproofed with a mixture of oil and tallow.
   • 1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 116, page 21:

     The supply of Swedish dubbed leather and sole leather corresponded to a great extent to the demand.

   • 1976, Pennsylvania Angler - Volume 45, page 14:

     The dubbed hides then were stretched. their full width and when partly dried (most tanneries had a drying loft or second floor) they received another coating of codfish oil .

   • 2014, Deborah Bell, Mask Makers and Their Craft: An Illustrated Worldwide Study, page 85:

     Motherhood, a gestural structure ("total mask") in dubbed leather, created by Donato Sartori at Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuale, Abano Terme, 1984

dubbed

1. simple past and past participle of dub