dub
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- noun
- /dʌb/
- Specialized
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doblaje
- The film's English dub features many talented voice actors adding new dialogue.
- a film dub
First question is from Justin Parrish, who says when will Snowflake host the news and will there be subtitles and or dubs available?
- First question is from Justin Parrish, who says when will Snowflake host the news and will there be subtitles and or dubs available?
Examples
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I'd like a dub of last night's rock video please.
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The problem is, English dubs are expensive, far more so than subtitles.
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So this is a dub of my copy.
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Since the editing was all digital, generation after generation, dub after dub was the same quality as the first.
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The 1987 JAL/Tokuma dub of Laputa was actually more faithful than the Disney dub from 1998.
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Both projects take Ethiopian music into dub and electronic places while still respecting the original sources by working with Ethiopian musicians.
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But heavily electronic ambient techno and dub are the music of choice for new subcultures that are emerging around technologies of cyberspace and virtual reality.
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Those big speakers pounding, all that Jamaican dub was pumping, clouds of those medicinal herbs were floating.
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In the documentary, the Spanish dub highlighted the main themes for the viewers.
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He watched the anime series in the original Japanese but preferred the English dub for clarity.
Synonyms
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An extra recorded sound added to an existing recording to make it fuller
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The process of adding new voices to a film or video, often in another language
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An audio track where the actors speak in English instead of the original language
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dub as a noun for added sounds or a remix comes from the same idea of making a 'double' or copy of a track and then changing it, a practice that became popular in Jamaican music. That's why a dub is a new version of a song or extra sounds added to a soundtrack.