dress
Meanings
verb
- To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- To adorn or ornament (something).
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To prepare by any of many types of physical processing (e.g., breaking, crushing, sorting, sieving, controlled burning or heating).
- To prepare the surface of (a material, such as lumber or stone; a grindstone or grinding wheel).
noun
- An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
- An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
- Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The act of putting on clothes, especially fashionable ones, or for a particular (especially formal) occasion.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
- The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
- The act of applying a dressing to or otherwise treating a wound; also, the dressing so applied.
noun
- acronym of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms or drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms.
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PIE word *dwís The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *dīrēctiāre (“to guide, direct”), from Classical Latin dīrēctus, whence English direct. Further akin to Latin regō. The noun is derived from the verb. Compare typologically adorn (<< Latin ōrnō < ōrdō, whence also ōrdinō, English order, ornament); Russian наряжа́ть (narjažátʹ), наря́д (narjád) (akin to ряд (rjad), поря́док (porjádok)).
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