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Definitions for Dressing

[1] the act of a person or thing that dresses.
[2] a sauce for food: salad dressing.
[3] stuffing for a fowl: turkey dressing.
[4] material used to dress or cover a wound.
[5] manure, compost, or other fertilizers.
[6] the ornamental detail of a building, especially that around openings.
[7] an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
[8] clothing; apparel; garb: The dress of the 18th century was colorful.
[9] formal attire.
[10] a particular form of appearance; guise.
[11] outer covering, as the plumage of birds.
[12] of or for a dress or dresses.
[13] of or for a formal occasion.
[14] requiring formal dress.
[15] to put clothing upon.
[16] to put formal or evening clothes on.
[17] to trim; ornament; adorn: to dress a store window; to dress a Christmas tree.
[18] to design clothing for or sell clothes to.
[19] to comb out and do up (hair).
[20] to cut up, trim, and remove the skin, feathers, viscera, etc., from (an animal, meat, fowl, or flesh of a fowl) for market or for cooking (often followed by out when referring to a large animal): We dressed three chickens for the dinner. He dressed out the deer when he got back to camp.
[21] to prepare (skins, fabrics, timber, stone, ore, etc.) by special processes.
[22] to apply medication or a dressing to (a wound or sore).
[23] to make straight; bring (troops) into line: to dress ranks.
[24] to make (stone, wood, or other building material) smooth.
[25] to cultivate (land, fields, etc.).
[26] Theater . to arrange (a stage) by effective placement of properties, scenery, actors, etc.
[27] to ornament (a vessel) with ensigns, house flags, code flags, etc.: The bark was dressed with masthead flags only.
[28] Angling . to prepare or bait (a fishhook) for use. to prepare (bait, especially an artificial fly) for use.
[29] Printing . to fit (furniture) around and between pages in a chase prior to locking it up.
[30] to supply with accessories, optional features, etc.: to have one's new car fully dressed.
[31] to clothe or attire oneself; put on one's clothes: Wake up and dress, now!
[32] to put on or wear formal or fancy clothes: to dress for dinner.
[33] to come into line, as troops.
[34] to align oneself with the next soldier, marcher, dancer, etc., in line.
[35] dress down , to reprimand; scold. to thrash; beat. to dress informally or less formally: to dress down for the shipboard luau.
[36] dress up , to put on one's best or fanciest clothing; dress relatively formally: They were dressed up for the Easter parade. to dress in costume or in another person's clothes: to dress up in Victorian clothing; to dress up as Marie Antoinette. to embellish or disguise, especially in order to make more appealing or acceptable: to dress up the facts with colorful details.
[37] a sauce for food, esp for salad
[38] US and Canadian a mixture of chopped and seasoned ingredients with which poultry, meat, etc, is stuffed before cooking Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): stuffing
[39] a covering for a wound, sore, etc
[40] manure or artificial fertilizer spread on land
[41] size used for stiffening textiles
[42] the processes in the conversion of certain rough tanned hides into leather ready for use
[43] to put clothes on (oneself or another); attire
[44] (intr) to change one's clothes to wear formal or evening clothes
[45] (tr) to provide (someone) with clothing; clothe
[46] (tr) to arrange merchandise in (a shop window) for effective display
[47] (tr) to comb out or arrange (the hair) into position
[48] (tr) to apply protective or therapeutic covering to (a wound, sore, etc)
[49] (tr) to prepare (food, esp fowl and fish) for cooking or serving by cleaning, trimming, gutting, etc
[50] (tr) to put a finish on (the surface of stone, metal, etc)
[51] (tr) to till and cultivate (land), esp by applying manure, compost, or fertilizer
[52] (tr) to prune and trim (trees, bushes, etc)
[53] (tr) to groom (an animal, esp a horse)
[54] (tr) to convert (tanned hides) into leather
[55] (tr) archaic to spay or neuter (an animal)
[56] angling to tie (a fly)
[57] military to bring (troops) into line or (of troops) to come into line (esp in the phrase dress ranks )
[58] dress ship nautical to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
[59] a one-piece garment for a woman, consisting of a skirt and bodice
[60] complete style of clothing; costume formal dress ; military dress
[61] (modifier) suitable or required for a formal occasion a dress shirt
[62] the outer covering or appearance, esp of living things trees in their spring dress of leaves

Words related to Dressing

stuffing, filling, forcemeat, manure, compost, humus

Words nearby Dressing

dress-up, dressage, dressed to kill, dresser, dresser set, dressing, dressing case, dressing forceps, dressing glass, dressing gown, dressing room

Origin of Dressing

1275–1325; Middle English dressen < Anglo-French dresser, dresc(i)er, to arrange, prepare, Old French drecier < Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, derivative of Latin dīrēctus direct; noun use of v. in sense “attire” from circa 1600

Other words from Dressing

half-dressed , adjective
out·dress , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Dressing

C14: from Old French drecier, ultimately from Latin dīrigere to direct

Synonyms for Dressing

filling, stuffing, forcemeat