What (who) is Dress - definition
GARMENT FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, OR INFANTS CONSISTING OF A BODICE AND SKIRT MADE IN ONE OR MORE PIECES
Dresses; Wrap Dress; Ankle-length dress; Dress (garment); 👗; Party dress; Basic dress; Maxi dress; Maxidress; Mididress; Prom dress; Bodycon; Bodycon skirt; Bodycon dress; Types of dresses; Midi dress
![French afternoon dress, circa 1903, cotton and silk, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afternoon dress MET 49.46.17a-b front CP4.jpg?width=200 "French afternoon dress, circa 1903, cotton and silk, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)")
![Empire]] dress, 1800–1805, cotton and linen, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dress MET 69.2.1 front CP4.jpg?width=200 "Empire]] dress, 1800–1805, cotton and linen, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City)")
![A [[promotional model]] in a bodycon dress.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IMPORTEXPO IMG 5490 (5971779607).jpg?width=200 "A [[promotional model]] in a bodycon dress.")
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![[[Lola Beer Ebner]] in "afternoon dress", 1950](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1997 shenkar015-2 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "[[Lola Beer Ebner]] in \"afternoon dress\", 1950")
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dress
I. v. a.
1.
Align, make straight.
2.
Adjust, arrange, dispose, set or put in order.
3.
Prepare, fit, make suitable or fit, get ready, make ready.
4.
Clothe, array, attire, apparel, accoutre, robe, rig, trick out.
5.
Adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, trim, set out, set off.
II. v. n.
Get or put on one's clothes, make one's toilet, attire one's self.
III. n.
1.
Clothes, clothing, raiment, garments, garb, guise, habit, apparel, attire, habiliment, vesture, suit, costume.
2.
Array, fine clothes, rich garments, elegant attire.
3.
(Lady's) gown.
Dress
·noun A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
II. Dress ·noun Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
III. Dress ·noun The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
IV. Dress ·vt To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
V. Dress ·noun That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
VI. Dress ·vt To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
VII. Dress ·vi To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
IX. Dress ·vi To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers;
- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!.
X. Dress ·vt To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
XI. Dress ·vt To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to Align; as, to dress the ranks.
XII. Dress ·vt To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to Apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to Clothe; to Deck.
XIII. Dress ·vt To Adjust; to put in good order; to Arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
dress
(dresses, dressing, dressed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A dress is a piece of clothing worn by a woman or girl. It covers her body and part of her legs.
She was wearing a black dress.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to clothes worn by men or women as dress.
He's usually smart in his dress.
...hundreds of Cambodians in traditional dress.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
When you dress or dress yourself, you put on clothes.
He told Sarah to wait while he dressed...
Sue had dressed herself neatly for work.
VERB: V, V pron-refl
4.
If you dress someone, for example a child, you put clothes on them.
She bathed her and dressed her in clean clothes.
VERB: V n
5.
If someone dresses in a particular way, they wear clothes of a particular style or colour.
He dresses in a way that lets everyone know he's got authority...
VERB: V in n
6.
If you dress for something, you put on special clothes for it.
We don't dress for dinner here.
VERB: V for n
7.
When someone dresses a wound, they clean it and cover it.
The poor child never cried or protested when I was dressing her wounds.
VERB: V n
8.
If you dress a salad, you cover it with a mixture of oil, vinegar, and herbs or flavourings.
Scatter the tomato over, then dress the salad.
...a bowl of dressed salad.
VERB: V n, V-ed
9.
Wikipedia
Dress
A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment traditionally worn by women or girls consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment). It consists of a top piece that covers the torso and hangs down over the legs. A dress can be any one-piece garment containing a skirt of any length, and can be formal or casual.
A dress can have sleeves, straps, or be held up with elastic around the chest, leaving the shoulders bare. Dresses also vary in color.
The hemlines of dresses vary depending on modesty, weather, fashion or the personal taste of the wearer.
Pronunciation examples for Dress
1. dress.
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2. Blue dress?
Big Fish (2003)
3. or dresses.
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4. dress traditionally.
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5. There's dress.
Ryan Serhant _ Big Money Energy _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Dress
1. She has promised it will be a showstopper: "My dress, my dress, my dress!
2. They dress in jeans and T–shirts and seem to shun traditional Islamic dress.
3. Her dress diamond, which had been sewn into her Christian Lacroix dress, was decidedly more resilient.
4. It would appear to be a case of dress as I say, not as I dress.
5. The new policy mandates dress shirts and dress slacks or khakis.