What (who) is dab - definition
DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF KATOWICE IN SOUTHERN POLAND
Dąb; Dab, Katowice
dab
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Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
I. v. a.
1.
Strike, slap, box.
2.
Pat, strike gently.
II. n.
1.
Blow, stroke, pat.
2.
Lump, pat, lumpy mass.
3.
Salt-water flounder, fluke.
4.
(Colloq.) Adept, expert, proficient, masterhand, capital hand, nice hand, good hand, dabster (colloq.).
dab
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Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
(dabs, dabbing, dabbed)
1.
If you dab something, you touch it several times using quick, light movements. If you dab a substance onto a surface, you put it there using quick, light movements.
She arrived weeping, dabbing her eyes with a tissue...
She dabbed iodine on the cuts on her forehead...
He dabbed at his lips with the napkin.
VERB: V n, V n prep/adv, V at n
2.
A dab of something is a small amount of it that is put onto a surface. (INFORMAL)
...a dab of glue.
N-COUNT: N of n
3.
A dab is a small flat fish with rough scales.
N-VAR
Dab
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Dab; Dabs; D.A.B.; DAB (disambiguation); DAB page
·noun A small mass of anything soft or moist.
II. Dab ·noun A skillful hand; a dabster; an Expert.
III. Dab ·vi To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
IV. Dab ·noun A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
V. Dab ·vi To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to Tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
VI. Dab ·noun A name given to several species of flounders, ·esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
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Dąb, Katowice
Dąb (German: Domb) is a district of Katowice. It has an area of 1.86 km2 and in 2007 had 7,694 inhabitants.
Pronunciation examples for dab
1. - Okay.
- I’ll dab you.
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
2. smack dab in the middle.
Miller's Valley _ Anna Quindlen _ Talks at Google
3. and dab at my eyes.
Sharing the Work - How Partners Can Balance Family and Careers _ Myra Strober _ Talks at Google
4. I call it the DAB.
Parenting with Presence _ Susan Stiffelman _ Talks at Google
5. So the first three stages, the DAB.
Parenting with Presence _ Susan Stiffelman _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of dab
1. Dab–dab cricket encapsulates cricket in the seventies, eighties and nineties exactly.
2. Fortunately, Brendan is a dab hand at catching women.
3. The astronaut used tape to dab up some of the shavings.
4. Won‘t they? – Dab, Cambs England And they have only just come to this conclusion have they?
5. "Ofcom faces a public outcry if the DAB platform were to fail, with owners of the 6.45million DAB receivers sold to date demanding a refund." The analysts‘ warning that the industry no longer considers DAB "the future of radio" also raised the spectre of a repeat of the Betamax fiasco.