dress


Definition: Meaning of, dress in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / drɛs /

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dress dresses
  1. [countable] a piece of clothing worn by a woman or girl that covers the top of her body and part or all of her legs [↪  skirt]
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  2. [uncountable] clothes for men or women of a particular type or for a particular occasion
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dress dressed dressed
Present Participle Third Person Singular
dressing dresses
  1. put on clothes [intransitive and transitive] to put clothes on yourself or someone else
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  2. wear clothes [intransitive] to wear a particular kind of clothes
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  3. make/choose clothes [transitive] to make or choose clothes for someone
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  4. wound/cut etc [transitive] to clean, treat, and cover a wound
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  5. meat/fish [transitive] to clean and prepare meat or fish so that it is ready to cook or eat
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  6. salad [transitive] to put oil, VINEGAR, salt etc onto a SALAD
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  7. window [transitive] to put an attractive arrangement in a shop window
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  8. soldiers [intransitive and transitive] technical to stand in a straight line, or to make soldiers do this
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  9. hair [transitive] formal to arrange someone's hair into a special style
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  10. wood/stone etc [transitive] technical to prepare or put a special surface onto wood, stone, leather etc
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dress used in phrases

  • Highland dress
    1. a set of clothes worn by some Scottish men on special occasions, for example at a wedding. Highland dress consists of a short black JACKET, a BOW TIE, a KILT and long socks with a small knife kept under the fold at the top of one of the socks.
  • battle dress (noun)
    1. military a military uniform designed for field service
  • civilian dress (noun)
    1. ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.
  • cocktail dress (noun)
    1. a formal dress for wearing to parties or other evening social events
  • cross-dress (verb)
    1. dress in the clothes of the other sex
  • dinner dress (noun)
    1. a gown for evening wear
  • diving dress (noun)
    1. a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers
  • dress blues (noun)
    1. a dress uniform for formal occasions
  • dress circle (noun)
    1. the lowest of the curved rows of seats upstairs in a theatre [=  first balcony American English]
  • dress code (noun)
    1. or specifying what manner of dress is prohibited a set of rules specifying the correct manner of dress while on the premises of the institution
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dress used in phrasal verbs

  • dress down (phrasal verb)
    1. [intransitive] to wear clothes that are more informal than the clothes that you usually wear
    2. [transitive] dress someone down to speak in an angry way to someone who has done something wrong
  • dress up (phrasal verb)
    1. [intransitive] to put on clothes that make you look like someone else, for fun
    2. [transitive] dress someone up to put clothes on someone so that they look like someone else, for fun
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