dressing
noun
[ ˈdrɛsɪŋ ]
• a sauce for salads, typically one consisting of oil and vinegar with herbs or other flavourings.
• "vinaigrette dressing"
• a piece of material used to cover and protect a wound.
• "an antiseptic dressing"
Similar:
bandage,
covering,
gauze,
lint,
compress,
ligature,
swathe,
poultice,
salve,
plaster,
spica,
Elastoplast,
Band-Aid,
• size or stiffening used in the finishing of fabrics.
• "fabrics finished with dressing will work successfully when cut an inch wide"
• a fertilizing substance such as compost or manure spread over or ploughed into land.
• "a dressing of blood, fish, and bone"
Similar:
fertilizer,
mulch,
manure,
compost,
dung,
bonemeal,
blood,
fish,
and bone,
fishmeal,
guano,
humus,
peat,
top-dressing,
dress
verb
• put on one's clothes.
• "Graham showered and dressed quickly"
Similar:
put on clothes,
don clothes,
slip into clothes,
clothe oneself,
get dressed,
• decorate (something) in an artistic or attractive way.
• "she'd enjoyed dressing the tree when the children were little"
Similar:
decorate,
adorn,
ornament,
trim,
deck,
bedeck,
embellish,
beautify,
prettify,
array,
festoon,
garland,
rig,
drape,
garnish,
furbish,
enhance,
grace,
enrich,
trick out,
tart up,
furbelow,
• clean, treat, or apply a dressing to (a wound).
• "she washed the wound and dressed it with fresh bandages"
• clean and prepare (food, especially poultry or shellfish) for cooking or eating.
• "dress the crab and shell the prawns"
• apply a fertilizer to (an area of ground or a plant).
• "the field was dressed with unrotted farmyard manure"
• draw up (troops) in the proper alignment.
Similar:
line up,
put in line,
align,
straighten,
arrange,
put into order,
dispose,
set out,
get into rows/columns,
fall in,
• (of a man) have the genitals habitually on one or the other side of the fork of the trousers.
• "do you dress to the left?"
• make (an artificial fly) for use in fishing.
• "after you dress a dry fly, be sure to remove any oil before you make your next cast"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘put straight’): from Old French dresser ‘arrange, prepare’, based on Latin directus ‘direct, straight’.
