bulwark vs dub

bulwark

noun
  • A breakwater. 

  • A defensive wall or rampart. 

  • A defense or safeguard. 

  • Any means of defence or security. 

  • The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard. 

verb
  • To fortify something with a wall or rampart. 

  • To provide protection of defense for something. 

dub

noun
  • A pool or puddle. 

  • A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana. 

  • A blow, thrust, or poke. 

  • A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music. 

  • A win. 

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

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

  • An unskillful, awkward person. 

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

  • A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more. 

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

verb
  • (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. 

  • To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. 

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

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

  • To dress a fishing fly. 

  • To dress with an adze. 

  • To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. 

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

  • To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it. 

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

  • To deem. 

  • To execute a shot poorly. 

  • To do something badly. 

  • To name, to entitle, to call. 

  • To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. 

  • To add sound to film or change audio on film. 

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