dressing
English
/ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
noun
Definitions
- (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
- A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
- Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
- The activity of getting dressed.
- (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
- The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
- Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
- (dated) Castigation; scolding; dressing down.
- (dated) the process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English dressing suffix from English dress.
Origin
English
dress
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Thousand Island dressing English
- Thousand Islands English
- battledress English
- coatdress English
- cross-dress English
- dress English
- dressable English
- dresscoat English
- dressest English
- dresseth English
- dressful English
- dressing gown English
- dressish English
- dressless English
- dresslike English
- dressmaker English
- dressmaking English
- dresswear English
- dressy English
- gown English
- hair English
- hairdress English
- hairdresser English
- hairdressing English
- headdress English
- housedress English
- microdress English
- mididress English
- minidress English
- nightdress English
- outdress English
- overdress English
- shirtdress English
- slipdress English
- sundress English
- underdress English
- undress English
- dressing Dutch, Flemish
- dress Norwegian Bokmål
- ドレッシング Japanese
- dres Polish
- dressing Polish
- dress Norwegian Nynorsk
- dressen Middle English
- dressing Middle English
- dres Serbo-Croatian
- дрес Serbo-Croatian
- 드레스 Korean
- dres Slovene
- Dress Pennsylvania German
- dhirezi Shona
- hair
- gown
- dress
- dressy
- undress
- dressish
- dresseth
- sundress
- dressful
- dressest
- outdress
- dresscoat
- overdress
- dressable
- slipdress
- minidress
- dresswear
- dresslike
- hairdress
- coatdress
- headdress
- mididress
- dressless
- housedress
- shirtdress
- underdress
- nightdress
- dressmaker
- microdress
- hairdresser
- dressmaking
- cross-dress
- battledress
- hairdressing
- dressing gown
- Thousand Islands
- Thousand Island dressing