Definitions for dress
dress
dress
Spelling: [dres]
IPA: /drɛs/
Dress is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 45 anagrams from letters in dress (derss).
Definitions for dress
noun
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an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
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clothing; apparel; garb:
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formal attire.
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a particular form of appearance; guise.
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outer covering, as the plumage of birds.
Idioms
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dress ship,
to decorate a ship by hoisting lines of flags running its full length.
U.S. Navy. to display the national ensigns at each masthead and a larger ensign on the flagstaff.
adjective
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of or for a dress or dresses.
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of or for a formal occasion.
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requiring formal dress.
Verb phrases
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dress down,
to reprimand; scold.
to thrash; beat.
to dress informally or less formally:
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dress up,
to put on one's best or fanciest clothing; dress relatively formally:
to dress in costume or in another person's clothes:
to embellish or disguise, especially in order to make more appealing or acceptable:
verb (used with object)
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to put clothing upon.
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to put formal or evening clothes on.
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to trim; ornament; adorn:
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to design clothing for or sell clothes to.
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to comb out and do up (hair).
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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):
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to prepare (skins, fabrics, timber, stone, ore, etc.) by special processes.
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to apply medication or a dressing to (a wound or sore).
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to make straight; bring (troops) into line:
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to make (stone, wood, or other building material) smooth.
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to cultivate (land, fields, etc.).
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Theater. to arrange (a stage) by effective placement of properties, scenery, actors, etc.
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to ornament (a vessel) with ensigns, house flags, code flags, etc.:
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Angling.
to prepare or bait (a fishhook) for use.
to prepare (bait, especially an artificial fly) for use.
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Printing. to fit (furniture) around and between pages in a chase prior to locking it up.
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to supply with accessories, optional features, etc.:
verb (used without object)
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to clothe or attire oneself; put on one's clothes:
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to put on or wear formal or fancy clothes:
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to come into line, as troops.
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to align oneself with the next soldier, marcher, dancer, etc., in line.
Origin of dress
1275-1325; Middle English dressen Anglo-French dresser, dresc(i)er, to arrange, prepare, Old French drecier Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, derivative of Latin dīrēctus direc
Examples for dress
Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.
The exhibit also includes examples of designers borrowing from fine art, as Yves Saint Laurent did with his Mondrian dress.
They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.
But for her consolation were the matters of food and dress, and of countless junketings.
As the interview wound down, Bentivolio reflected on what may have motivated him to dress as Santa.
In this resolution he had begun to dress, but before he had finished had begun to have his doubts.
“The dress is just fishnet and crystals and a couple fingers crossed,” Selman told Style.com of the dress.
Each modification of your dress makes you seem more bewitching than the last.
So people say; but he doesn't show it in his dress or way of living.
From his dress, and the commands he appeared to be issuing, Robert judged that it was the mate.