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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



... the few cities of the world whose foundation furnishes the material for their construction. The limestone rock on which it is built is in layers of about a foot in thickness, and very easy to quarry. The blocks require little dressing to fit them for use. Though very soft at first, the stone soon hardens by exposure to the air, and forms a neat and durable wall. In digging a cellar one will obtain more than sufficient stone for the ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... dawning, the maidens were dressing, and it was the hour for setting off for Komorn. The old woman who had waited on them came to the Lady of Kottenner to have her wages paid, and be dismissed to Buda. While she was waiting, she began to remark on a strange thing lying ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... two governments, have a dispute; they reason the point backwards and forwards; they cannot determine it; perhaps they do not wish to determine; so, like two carmen in the street, they fight it out; first, however, dressing themselves up to look fine, and pluming themselves on their absurdity; just as if the two carmen were to go and put on their Sunday clothes, and stick a feather in their hat besides, in order to be as dignified and fantastic as possible. They then "go at it," and cover themselves with mud, ...
— Captain Sword and Captain Pen - A Poem • Leigh Hunt

... one of the leaves with his knife, after cutting away the triangular thorn from the end, and applied it to his brother's hand, binding it with his handkerchief. Having completed this dressing, he threw off his clothes, and, jumping into his bed, he and his brothers were sound asleep ...
— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

... down, and after serving the writ, took possession of the horse, before leaving for Sturgis. However, he spent nearly an hour in mending his clothes, patching up his nose and face, and dressing the slight flesh-wounds on his hands and arms, after which he borrowed a hat, and as I supposed, returned to Sturgis with ...
— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston


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