A dab is a small flat fish with rough scales. Any of various flatfishes, chiefly of the genera Limanda and Hippoglossoides, related to and resembling the flounders. A dab hand
DAB is the transmission of digital stereo over conventional radio channels. DAB is an abbreviation for `digital audio broadcasting'. DAB is the radio system of the 21st Century
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
(Digital Audio Broadcasting) - Coming to a (currently expensive) radio near you now, DAB provides interference-free CD-quality sound, plus extra digital information to supplement radio programmes
Clever, skilled, as "a dab-hand at it"; a corrupt contraction of the Latin adeptus (an adept) "Dabster" is another form Apt is a related word "An Eton stripling, training for the law A dunce at learning, but a dab at taw (marbles) " Anon: Logic; or, The Biter Bit " Dab, Din etc "Hab Dab and David Din Ding the deil o'er Dabson's Linn " "Hab Dab" means Halbert Dobson;"David Din" means David Dun; and"Dabson's Linn," or Dob's Linn, is a waterfall near the head of Moffat Water Dobson and Dun were two Cameronians who lived for security in a cave in the ravine Here, as they said, they saw the devil in the form of a pack of dried hides, and after fighting the "foul fiend" for some time, they dinged him into the waterfall
a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud" hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder" apply (usually a liquid) to a surface; "dab the wall with paint