Dressing
['dresɪŋ] or ['drɛsɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of applying a bandage.
(noun.) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes.
(noun.) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather.
(noun.) a cloth covering for a wound or sore.
(noun.) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type.
Editor: Vince--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dress
(n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
(n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
(n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
(n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
(n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
(n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
(n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Checker: Pamela
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Preparing, putting in order.[2]. Manure, fertilizer, compost.[3]. Force-meat, stuffing.
Checked by Estes
Unserious Contents or Definition
To think you are having trouble in dressing, while dreaming, means some evil persons will worry and detain you from places of amusement. If you can't get dressed in time for a train, you will have many annoyances through the carelessness of others. You should depend on your own efforts as far as possible, after these dreams, if you would secure contentment and full success.
Edited by Harold
Examples
- The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It left him, however, vaguely uneasy, and Mrs. Straker, waking at one in the morning, found that he was dressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- As to dressing, I make this vow: I'll never dress more finely than as you see me at present. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He put the tray with the breakfast and the letter on the dressing-table, before which Becky sat combing her yellow hair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I found two letters on my dressing-table; the first I took up was in my young nephew's well-known round text. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She thought it humiliating to see a man dressing: the ridiculous shirt, the ridiculous trousers and braces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was smoking in my dressing-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Standing before the dressing-glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their 'back-hair. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her harmlessness and her fancy for dressing in white excited a certain amount of sympathy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have no notion of men's going on in this way; and if ever I meet him again, I will give him such a dressing as he has not had this many a day. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But prominent in it was a draped table with a gilded looking-glass, and that I made out at first sight to be a fine lady's dressing-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Round and round the meadow went horse and man, forming so striking a sight that Maurice and Crispin paused in their dressing to look at it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Remove the dressings, please, nurse, the house doctor said to Miss Gage. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I waked the orderly and he poured mineral water on the dressings. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But we can't do anything to the dressings until the doctor comes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Side by side with tragedy, comedy developed from another and merrier series of dressings-up and singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Gage removed the dressings. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Remove the dressings? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Leave the dressings off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Waldo