noun

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An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.

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Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses.

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Apparel, clothing.

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He came to the party in formal dress.

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The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

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A dress rehearsal.

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To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).

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He was dressed in the latest fashions.

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To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.

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I rose and dressed before daybreak.  It's very cold out. Dress warm.

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To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.

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Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana

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Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers.

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Does sir dress to the right or the left?

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To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.

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To prepare oneself; to make ready.

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To adorn, ornament.

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It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again.

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To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.

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To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.

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To treat (a wound, or wounded person).

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To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.

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to dress leather or cloth;  to dress a garden;  to dress grain, by cleansing it;  in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them

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To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).

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To manure (land).

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To bolt or sift flour.

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(sometimes imperative) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align.

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Right, dress!

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To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

Examples of dress in a Sentence

That dress is really YOU!

The dress was too long.

He pushed her against the wall, pulling at her dress again.

They sparkled like the blue dress and diamonds.

One does not dress or act like a lady.

The kids dress a lot better here.

The chilly ocean breeze made her dress move as if it was alive, and she swiped at the pink hair blinding her.

Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with low neck and short sleeves and quite a train?

No, Mary, really this dress does not suit you.

Made of material softer than silk, the black dress she wore pooled at the top of her feet.

He slid her dress free, his hands moving over her body possessively before he lifted her and carried her to the bed.

She helped Destiny into a frilly white dress with yellow trim and they both finished up with white sandals.

Katie had helped her pick out the dress.

In matters of dress the asceticism of the society was very pronounced.

Her large blue-green eyes were clear and calm, the curves of her slender frame complemented by the cut and drape of the dress.

Before reaching Montserrato, Ignatius purchased some sackcloth for a garment and hempen shoes, which, with a staff and gourd, formed the usual pilgrim's dress.

A council which assembled at Rome during the reign of Eugenius passed several enactments for the restoration of church discipline, took measures for the foundation of schools and chapters, and decided against priests wearing a secular dress or engaging in secular occupations.

Yet the types, both in armour and dress, remained essentially Teutonic - or rather Celtic-Teutonic. Indeed, when in the course of time uniformity came to prevail over the greater part of Europe, it was the Teutonic rather than the Roman fashions which were generalized.

I assumed she meant a wedding dress or something connected to our pending wedding until she continued.

I'll talk to him while you dress.

When a man finds himself in this condition he assumes the women's dress and habits.

The dress of the women is less distinctive than that of the men, who wear a picturesque black and white costume, with knee-breeches, a brilliantly coloured sash, black hempen sandals, and a handkerchief wound round the head.

Hitherto the actor had walked the stage in modern dress.

He had been the target of constant attack during his life, and his personal foibles, careless dress and mental eccentricities were the theme of endless ridicule.

Her dress was of Spitalfields silk; her veil of Honiton lace; her ribbons came from Coventry; even her gloves had been made in London of English kid - a novel thing in days when the French had a monopoly in the finer kinds of gloves.

In the spring of 1517 he went for the last time to England, about a dispensation from wearing his canonical dress, obtained originally from Julius II.

The official dress of the acolyte, according to Ordo V., was a close-fitting linen garment (camisia) girt about him, a napkin hanging from the left side, a white tunic, a stole (orarium) and a chasuble (planeta) which he took off when he sang on the steps of the ambone.

Lyons is the headquarters of the trade, principally in the production of dress fabrics, plain and figured, and other light and heavier fabrics.

The noils are also in great demand for mixing with wool to make fancy effects in wool cloths for the dress goods trade.

The dress of the upper classes must have been of a somewhat gorgeous character, especially when account is taken of the brooches and other ornaments which they wore.

Having acquired some command of the Chinese tongue, and modified his personal appearance and dress in accordance with Chinese taste, he started from Canton.

To escape attention the little party assumed the dress of lamas or priests.

He clearly preferred the society of the semi-heathen Kumanians to that of the Christians; wore, and made his court wear, Kumanian dress; surrounded himself with Kumanian concubines, and neglected and ill-used his ill-favoured Neapolitan consort.

The dress of the people is Egyptian rather than Syrian.

It had at the outset no liturgical significance whatever, and was simply adopted by the clergy for the same reason that the clergy of the 18th century wore wigs - because it was part of the full dress of ordinary life.

In Germany it was even customary for men to dress up as women, and women as men, against the command of Deut.

From the violence of a multitude in which women of the worst class were more furious than the men she was sheltered in the house of the provost, where she repeatedly showed herself at the window, appealing aloud with dishevelled hair and dress to the mercy which no man could look upon her and refuse.

In a fresh state it is poisonous and fatal to vegetation, and is often used for this reason to dress land infested with wireworms, grubs, club-root fungus, &c.

Begin grafting in the third week; dig and dress between the rows of gooseberries, currants and other fruit trees, if not already done.

In the forcing-houses prune and train the trees; fork over and dress the borders of such houses as have not been already done.

Dig and dress such flower borders and shrubberies as may now be cleared of annuals and the stems of herbaceous plants.

The earliest Flemish Beghard communities were associations mainly of artisans who earned ' In the year 1287 the council of Liege decreed that "all Beguinae desiring to enjoy the Beguine privileges shall enter a Beguinage, and we order that all who remain outside the Beguinage shall wear a dress to distinguish them from the Beguinae."

The Mazurs are distinguished from the Poles by their lower stature, broad shoulders and massive frame, and still more by their national dress, which has nothing of the smartness of that of the southern Poles, and by their ancient customs; they have also a dialect of their own, containing many words now obsolete in Poland, and several grammatical forms bearing witness to Lithuanian influence.

A cotton chemise, and a white manta wrapped in Moorish fashion over head and body, constitute the dress of the women; a cotton shirt and trousers that of the men.

The habits and dress of the various orders may be seen in Helyot's Histoire, which abounds in plates, coloured, in the ed.

It prescribes severe simplicity of dress and of life, and certain abstinences and prayers and other religious exercises, and forbids the frequentation of the theatre, the bearing of arms and the taking of oaths except when administered by magistrates.

The manufacture of woollen and half-woollen dress materials centres mainly in Saxony, Silesia, the Rhine province and in Alsace.

Between the date of her death in 1758 and his own on the 10th of August 17 J9 he fell into a state of prostration in which he would not even dress, but wandered unshaven, unwashed and in a nightgown about his park.

At the age of nineteen he returned to his father's house, and, making a rough attempt at a hermit's dress out of two kirtles of his sister's and a hood belonging to his father, he ran away to follow the religious vocation.

After satisfying himself of Rolle's sanity, Dalton's father provided him with food and shelter and a hermit's dress.

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