DRESS

Dress

A dress is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice . In Western culture, dresses are usually considered to be items of women's and girls' apparel.

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dress

Noun

  1. 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. Apparel, clothing.
  3. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

Verb

  1. To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  2. To adorn, ornament.
  3. To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  4. To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  5. To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or somebody).
  6. To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  7. Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  8. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
    to dress leather or cloth; to dress a garden; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them
  9. To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  10. 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.
    to dress the ranks
    Right, dress!
  11. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.


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