dab

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  dab    DAB  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dab1

▶verb (dabs, dabbing, dabbed) press against (something) lightly several times with a piece of absorbent material.

■ apply (a substance) with light quick strokes.

▶noun

• 1 a small amount: a dab of perfume.

  ■ a brief application of a piece of absorbent material to a surface.

• 2 (dabs) Brit. informal fingerprints.

– derivatives
dabber noun.

– origin ME: symbolic of a light striking movement; cf. dabble and dib.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dab2

▶noun a small, commercially important flatfish found chiefly in the North Atlantic. [Limanda limanda and other species.]

– origin ME: of unknown origin.

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DAB

▶abbreviation digital audio broadcasting.