transcription, транскрипция: [ dres ]
( dresses, dressing, dressed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A dress is a piece of clothing worn by a woman or girl. It covers her body and part of her legs.
She was wearing a black dress.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to clothes worn by men or women as dress .
He’s usually smart in his dress.
...hundreds of Cambodians in traditional dress.
N-UNCOUNT
see also evening dress , fancy dress , full dress , morning dress
3.
When you dress or dress yourself , you put on clothes.
He told Sarah to wait while he dressed...
Sue had dressed herself neatly for work.
VERB : V , V pron-refl
4.
If you dress someone, for example a child, you put clothes on them.
She bathed her and dressed her in clean clothes.
VERB : V n
5.
If someone dresses in a particular way, they wear clothes of a particular style or colour.
He dresses in a way that lets everyone know he’s got authority...
VERB : V in n
6.
If you dress for something, you put on special clothes for it.
We don’t dress for dinner here.
VERB : V for n
7.
When someone dresses a wound, they clean it and cover it.
The poor child never cried or protested when I was dressing her wounds.
VERB : V n
8.
If you dress a salad, you cover it with a mixture of oil, vinegar, and herbs or flavourings.
Scatter the tomato over, then dress the salad.
...a bowl of dressed salad.
VERB : V n , V-ed
9.
see also dressing , dressed