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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024drest (drest),USA pronunciation v. [Obs.]- a pt. and pp. of dress.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dress /drɛs/USA pronunciation n. - Clothing an outer garment for women and girls, made up of an upper part and a skirt:[countable]a beautiful red dress.
- Clothing clothing;
clothes; garb, esp. those representative of a group of people:[uncountable]The folk dancers appeared in the national dress of their country. - Clothing formal clothing:[uncountable]evening dress.
adj. [before a noun] - of or for a dress or dresses:dress material for the gown.
- Clothingof or for a formal occasion:a full dress uniform.
- Clothingrequiring formal dress:a dress reception.
v. - to put clothing on or upon;
clothe: [no object]I was dressing when the phone rang.[~ + oneself]She was dressing herself in her mother's old wedding gown.[~ + object]Let's dress the kids or we'll never be on time. - Clothing to put on or wear clothes of a specified sort:[no object]dressed in their best clothes and went down to dinner.
- Clothing to decorate;
trim:[~ + object]to dress a store window. - Clothing[~ + object] to comb out and do up (hair).
- Food[~ + object] to trim and remove the inedible parts of (fowl, game, etc.) in preparation for cooking.
- Food to pour a dressing on:[~ + object]to dress a salad with oil and vinegar.
- Medicine to apply medication or a dressing to (a wound):[~ + object]The nurse dressed the wound expertly.
- dress down:
- to scold;
yell at; reprimand: [~ + down + object]The general dressed down the troops.[~ + object + down]He dressed them down for the awful performance. - [no object] to dress informally or less formally:His habit is to dress down for parties.
- dress up:
- [no object] to put on one's best or fanciest clothing:I'll go to church if I don't have to dress up.
- to dress in costume: [~ + oneself + up]He dressed himself up as a pirate.[~ + object + up]We dressed him up as a ghost.[no object]likes to dress up in her mother's hat and heels.
- [~ + up + object] to make more appealing or acceptable:He dressed up some of those facts and figures.
As a verb, dress has two important meanings with respect to clothes. One meaning is "to put clothes on,'' as inI can dress quickly in the mornings.I get dressed quickly in the mornings.This is similar to the expression put on:I put on my clothes quickly in the morning.Another meaning of dress is "to wear clothes,'' as inThey dressed simply and casually.However, it is more natural to sayThey were dressed simply and casually (in their comfortable clothes); see dressed below. Note that the phrase be dressed in is closer to the meaning of wear:They were dressed in their comfortable clothes. (= They wore their comfortable clothes). WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dress (dres),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., dressed or drest, dress•ing. n. - Clothingan outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- clothing;
apparel; garb:The dress of the 18th century was colorful. - Clothingformal attire.
- a particular form of appearance;
guise. - Zoologyouter covering, as the plumage of birds.
adj. - of or for a dress or dresses.
- Clothingof or for a formal occasion.
- Clothingrequiring formal dress.
v.t. - to put clothing upon.
- to put formal or evening clothes on.
- Clothingto trim;
ornament; adorn:to dress a store window; to dress a Christmas tree. - Clothingto design clothing for or sell clothes to.
- Clothingto comb out and do up (hair).
- Foodto cut up, trim, and remove the skin, feathers, viscera, etc., from (an animal, meat, fowl, or flesh of a fowl) for market or for cooking (often fol. by out when referring to a large animal):We dressed three chickens for the dinner. He dressed out the deer when he got back to camp.
- Clothingto prepare (skins, fabrics, timber, stone, ore, etc.) by special processes.
- Medicineto apply medication or a dressing to (a wound or sore).
- to make straight;
bring (troops) into line:to dress ranks. - Buildingto make (stone, wood, or other building material) smooth.
- Agricultureto cultivate (land, fields, etc.).
- Show Business[Theat.]to arrange (a stage) by effective placement of properties, scenery, actors, etc.
- to ornament (a vessel) with ensigns, house flags, code flags, etc.:The bark was dressed with masthead flags only.
- Sport[Angling.]
- to prepare or bait (a fishhook) for use.
- to prepare (bait, esp. an artificial fly) for use.
- Printingto fit (furniture) around and between pages in a chase prior to locking it up.
- to supply with accessories, optional features, etc.:to have one's new car fully dressed.
v.i. - to clothe or attire oneself;
put on one's clothes:Wake up and dress, now! - Clothingto put on or wear formal or fancy clothes:to dress for dinner.
- to come into line, as troops.
- to align oneself with the next soldier, marcher, dancer, etc., in line.
- dress down:
- to reprimand;
scold. - to thrash;
beat. - to dress informally or less formally:to dress down for the shipboard luau.
- dress ship:
- Naval Termsto decorate a ship by hoisting lines of flags running its full length.
- Naval Terms[U.S. Navy.]to display the national ensigns at each masthead and a larger ensign on the flagstaff.
- dress up:
- to put on one's best or fanciest clothing;
dress relatively formally:They were dressed up for the Easter parade. - to dress in costume or in another person's clothes:to dress up in Victorian clothing; to dress up as Marie Antoinette.
- to embellish or disguise, esp. in order to make more appealing or acceptable:to dress up the facts with colorful details.
- Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, derivative of Latin dīrēctus direct; noun, nominal use of verb, verbal in sense "attire'' from ca. 1600
- Anglo-French dresser, dresc(i)er, to arrange, prepare, Old French drecier
- Middle English dressen 1275–1325
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged frock. Dress, costume, gown refer to garments for women. Dress is the general term for a garment:a black dress.Costume is used of the style of dress appropriate to some occasion, purpose, period, or character, esp. as used on the stage, at balls, at court, or the like, and may apply to men's garments as well:an 18th-century costume.Gown is usually applied to a dress more expensive and elegant than the ordinary, usually long, to be worn on a special occasion:a wedding gown.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged raiment, attire, clothes, habit, garments, vestments, habiliments.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged clothe, robe, garb.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dress /drɛs/ vb - to put clothes on (oneself or another); attire
- (intransitive) to change one's clothes
- to wear formal or evening clothes
- (transitive) to provide (someone) with clothing; clothe
- (transitive) to arrange merchandise in (a shop window) for effective display
- (transitive) to comb out or arrange (the hair) into position
- (transitive) to apply protective or therapeutic covering to (a wound, sore, etc)
- (transitive) to prepare (food, esp fowl and fish) for cooking or serving by cleaning, trimming, gutting, etc
- (transitive) to put a finish on (the surface of stone, metal, etc)
- (transitive) to till and cultivate (land), esp by applying manure, compost, or fertilizer
- (transitive) to prune and trim (trees, bushes, etc)
- (transitive) to groom (an animal, esp a horse)
- (transitive) to convert (tanned hides) into leather
- to tie (a fly)
- to bring (troops) into line or (of troops) to come into line (esp in the phrase dress ranks)
- dress ship ⇒ to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
n - a one-piece garment for a woman, consisting of a skirt and bodice
- complete style of clothing; costume: formal dress, military dress
- (modifier) suitable or required for a formal occasion: a dress shirt
- the outer covering or appearance, esp of living things: trees in their spring dress of leaves
See also dress down, dress upEtymology: 14th Century: from Old French drecier, ultimately from Latin dīrigere to direct |