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Dressing   /drˈɛsɪŋ/   Listen
Dressing

noun
1.
Savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type.  Synonym: salad dressing.
2.
A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.  Synonym: stuffing.
3.
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.  Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization.
4.
A cloth covering for a wound or sore.  Synonym: medical dressing.
5.
Processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather.
6.
The activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes.  Synonym: grooming.
7.
The act of applying a bandage.  Synonyms: bandaging, binding.



Dress

verb
(past & past part. dressed or drest; pres. part. dressing)
1.
Put on clothes.  Synonym: get dressed.  "Dress the patient" , "Can the child dress by herself?"
2.
Provide with clothes or put clothes on.  Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog.
3.
Put a finish on.
4.
Dress in a certain manner.  Synonym: dress up.  "He dressed up in a suit and tie"
5.
Dress or groom with elaborate care.  Synonyms: plume, preen, primp.
6.
Kill and prepare for market or consumption.  Synonym: dress out.
7.
Arrange in ranks.  Synonym: line up.
8.
Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.  Synonyms: garnish, trim.
9.
Provide with decoration.  Synonym: decorate.
10.
Put a dressing on.
11.
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.  Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim.
12.
Cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width.
13.
Convert into leather.
14.
Apply a bandage or medication to.
15.
Give a neat appearance to.  Synonyms: curry, groom.  "Dress the horses"
16.
Arrange attractively.  Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set.



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"Dressing" Quotes from Famous Books



... me opened softly, as if somebody was looking in. "My dear," said the Doctor, turning his head, and speaking very earnestly, though in a low voice, "I wouldn't come here. You can do no good." But presently his wife came in, in her dressing-gown, very pale, and sat by me and held the hand that was ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

... placing two chairs before the fire, she seated herself in one, and requested Frank to occupy the other. Throwing off her shawl, she displayed a fine form and voluptuous bust—the latter very liberally displayed, as she was arrayed in nothing but a loose dressing gown, which concealed neither her plump shoulders, nor the two fair and ample globes, whiter than alabaster, that gave her ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn

... thousand little preparations. She filled the rooms of the visitors with flowers (not dreaming that any one could fancy them unwholesome), and spread the tables with her own favourite books, and had the little cottage piano in her own dressing-room removed into Caroline's—Caroline must be fond of music. She had some doubts of transferring a cage with two canaries into Caroline's room also; but when she approached the cage with that intention, the birds chirped so merrily, and seemed so glad to see ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book I • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... cannot be too warm before having it: we always took a rapid walk of half an hour, and came up to the ordeal glowing like a furnace. The faithful William was waiting our arrival, and ushered us into a little dressing-room, where we disrobed. William then pulled a cord, which let loose the formidable torrent, and we hastened to place ourselves under it. The course is to back gradually till it falls upon the shoulders, then to sway about till every part of the back and limbs has been played upon: ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd

... working up to the firing-line and the awful labour of carrying heavy men back to our dressing station: it went on. We got used to being always tired, and having only an hour or two of sleep. It was log-heavy, dreamless sleep... sheer nothingness. Just as tired when you were wakened in the early hours by a sleepy, grumbling guard. And then going ...
— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave


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