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DUBBED

Definition: DUBBED

DUBBED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Dub

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DUBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Crosswords: DUBBED

Specialty definitions using "DUBBED": BozHackumPentapolinSpurs. (references)

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Modern Usage: DUBBED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I wanted that part, but it was dubbed in Canada! (Excel Saga; writing credit: Hideyuki Kurata; Ysuke Kuroda)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DUBBED

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Sailor Victory - Subtitled and Dubbed (reference)

  • Twin Signal DVD Subtitled and Dubbed (reference)

  • Dragon Ball Z - Bardock the Father of Goku - Dubbed in English (Edited) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: DUBBED

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Mariner 9 image of the "Inca City". During the Mariner 9 mission, scientists found an unusual rectilinear structure associatedwith the south polar pitted terrain which they dubbed the "Inca City". Located near-80 degrees latitude and 64 degrees longitude, it is likely the result of wind deflationof deposits from underlying rough terrain. The "cells" in the image are about 4-5kilometers in width. Credit: NASA.

B-17 used for aerial photography following WWII This was the last operational B-17- dubbed "Old Rotten Wings" by aircraft crew Flown by Coast Guard crew with C&GS navigator and cameraman. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

SEALAB II, resting on an angle off California, was dubbed the "Tilton Hilton.". Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Team members from F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., race up the steps of the Fayetteville, W.Va., court house during the end of the 5.5-mile run, the last event in a four-event competition sponsored by Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation dubbed Wilderness.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: DUBBED

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

The introduction of these philosophical phrases at the back of the French historical criticisms they dubbed "Philosophy of Action," "True Socialism," "German Science of Socialism," "Philosophical Foundation of Socialism," and so on. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DUBBED

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The sector's growth has been dubbed "unprecedented in Latin America" by an industry analyst. (references)

Following China Mobile, China Unicom Shanghai Branch also opened such service dubbed as "Unicom Palm Net" in Shanghai. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Dubbed U.S. programs dominate, but Mexican, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Argentine, and Japanese material can also be seen. (references)

Azerbaijan

CDs and Western videos, dubbed in Russian or Azeri, are sold at less than 15 percent of their market value in the West. (references)

Lebanon

In early April 1996, Israel conducted a military operation dubbed "Grapes of Wrath" in response to Hizballah's continued launching of rockets at villages in northern Israel. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

The Government continued to train and deploy the new Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), dubbed the Scorpions, to coordinate efforts against organized crime and corruption. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DUBBED

"DUBBED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 47.86% of the time. "DUBBED" is used about 374 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)47.86%17923,133
Lexical Verb (past participle)46.79%17523,506
Adjective (general or positive)4.28%1687,710
Noun (proper)1.07%4175,879
                    Total100.00%374N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DUBBED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DUBBED": dubbed-up.

Ending with "DUBBED": over-dubbed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DUBBED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dubbed el golfer nino spanish

8

dubbed dvd english inuyasha

8

dubbed

5

dubbed fushigi reflection yugi

3

dubbed english inuyasha

2

ball dragon dubbed english

2

censor dubbed statesman

2

dubbed inuyasha

2

anime dubbed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DUBBED

Language Translations for "DUBBED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

取绰号. (various references)

   

French

  

version doublée (dubbed version). (various references)

   

German

  

titulierte. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szinkronizált. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

吹替え版 (dubbed version). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふきかえば" (dubbed version). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

새로 녹음하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubbedday

   

Russian 

  

дублировать дублированный. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DUBBED

Derivations

Words ending with "DUBBED": overdubbed, redubbed, undubbed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DUBBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Debbeh, dobber, dobbo, Dubber, dubbier, dube, dubed, Dubedat, Duben, dubled, Duboc, Dubtek, dumbed, hubbed, Kubbet, pubbed, tubbed, ubed, udhbeg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DUBBED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DUBBED" (pronounced du"bd)
3-u" b dclubbed, drubbed, rubbed, scrubbed, snubbed, stubbed, subbed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DUBBED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-d-e-u"

-2 letters: bedu, dude.

-3 letters: bed, bub, bud, deb, dub, dud, due, ebb.

-4 letters: be, de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-d-d-e-u"
 

+1 letter: drubbed.

 

+2 letters: bedaubed, bedumbed, redubbed, undubbed.

 

+4 letters: overdubbed.

 

+5 letters: bodybuilder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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