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Definition dress

Etymology

From Middle English dressen, from Old French dresser, drescer, drecier (“to erect, set up, arrange, dress”), from Medieval Latin *directi?, an assumed frequentative, from Latin directus (“straight, direct”), perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + reg? (“make straight, rule”). See direct.

Verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

1. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). [from 15c.]
2. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. [from 18c.]
3. (sports, transitive, intransitive) To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.
4. (intransitive, euphemistic) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers. [from 20c.]
5. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it. [from 15c.]
6. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready. [14-16c.]
7. To adorn, ornament. [from 15c.]
8. (nautical) 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.
9. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person). [from 15c.]
10. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
11. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
12. (transitive) To manure (land).
13. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
14. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
15. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

Noun

dress (countable and uncountable, plural dresses)

1. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
2. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
3. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
4. A dress rehearsal.

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