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Dub: A copy or the process of making a copy of a recording on another storage device.

Dubnium (Db): Atomic number: 105, Atomic mass: 261.9 g.mol -1, Electronegativity: unknown, Density: unknown, Melting point: unknown, Boiling point: unknown, Vanderwaals radius: unknown, Ionic radius: unkn . . . View Full Definition

Dubonnet: A French brand of apertif wine made from aromatics.

Dubbing: The replacement of one voice for another.

Luddite: The Luddites of the early 1800s were part of an anti-technological, anti-industrial grassroots movement in Britain. They protested specifically the introduction of textile machines as a thre . . . View Full Definition

Parallelism: Two or more expressions that share traits, whether metrical, lexical, figurative, or grammatical, and can take the form of a list.

Interior Monologue: A type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character's head. The author doe . . . View Full Definition

Speech Act Theory: An idea set forth by J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, which argues that language is often a mode of action rather than a means of communication or conveying information. Language- . . . View Full Definition

Xanaduism: Academic research that focuses on the sources behind imaginative works of literature and fantasy. John Livingstone Lowes, in his publication The Road to Xanadu (1927), inspired the name, whi . . . View Full Definition

Etymological Respelling: Revising spelling to reflect or match how a word's etymon was spelled, or the actual word so altered. For instance, the words debt and doubt gained their silent letters in the Renaissanc . . . View Full Definition