dressing
/'dresiɳ/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A sauce for salads: A seasoned mixture, often liquid or creamy, added to salads. Examples include vinaigrette or mayonnaise-based dressings.
- A covering for a wound: A sterile pad or bandage applied to protect a wound or sore.
- The act of putting on clothes: The activity of getting dressed.
- A seasoned mixture for stuffing: A preparation of ingredients, such as herbs and bread, used to stuff poultry, fish, or vegetables before cooking.
- The process of treating or preparing materials: Activities such as applying fertilizer to land, treating leather, or finishing the surface of stone or wood.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Salad Sauce):
- I prefer a light vinaigrette dressing on my salad.
- The chef makes a delicious creamy garlic dressing.
- Noun (Wound Covering):
- The nurse changed the dressing on the patient's burn.
- Keep the wound clean and apply a fresh dressing daily.
- Noun (Act of Getting Dressed):
- Dressing quickly in the morning is a challenge for me.
- Noun (Stuffing Mixture):
- She prepared a bread and herb dressing for the Thanksgiving turkey.
Advanced Usage
- "Window dressing": Superficial or deceptive changes meant to create a favorable impression.
- The policy changes were merely window dressing and didn't address the core problem.
- "Dressing room": A room for changing clothes, especially in a theater, store, or sports facility.
- The actors waited nervously in their dressing rooms before the show.
Variants and Related Words
- Dress (v): To put on clothes.
- Dresser (n): A piece of furniture with drawers for clothes; or a person who dresses in a particular way (e.g., a stylish dresser).
- Dressy (adj): Suitable for or requiring formal attire.
Synonyms
- For salad sauce: Topping, vinaigrette, sauce.
- For wound covering: Bandage, gauze, compress.
- For the act: Grooming, attiring.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Compounds
- Dress down (phrasal verb): To wear casual clothes; or to reprimand severely.
- Our office allows us to dress down on Fridays.
- The manager dressed down the employee for the safety violation.
- Dress up (phrasal verb): To wear formal or fancy clothes; or to disguise.
- We need to dress up for the gala dinner.
- The children love to dress up as superheroes.
Related Idioms
- Dressed to kill: Wearing very stylish or attractive clothes intended to impress.
- She arrived at the party dressed to kill.
Noun
- the act of applying a bandage
- the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- a cloth covering for a wound or sore
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type