dress

«dress» in Mova's school dictionary: A piece of clothing that covers the body from the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dress, dresses; dress — uncountable for "clothes"); verb (dress, dresses, dressed, dressing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women. tree →

2) To put clothes on yourself or someone else: get dressed. tree →

3) To wear clothes of a certain kind: dress smartly, dress up. tree →

4) Clothes of a certain style, uncountable: school dress, fancy dress. tree →

5) To dress a wound is to clean it and cover it with a bandage. tree →

6) To dress food is to add a sauce: dress a salad. tree →

7) The outward appearance or form in which a book or work is presented. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, getting dressed is part of the morning routine; "dress for the weather" means choosing clothes that keep you warm, dry or cool and safe in the sun. Fancy dress (UK) or costume parties (USA) mean dressing up as characters, as on World Book Day or Halloween. In first aid, you dress a wound with a clean dressing. Phrases: "get dressed", "dress up", "fancy dress", "dress code", "dressing gown", "dress rehearsal".

examples

• Get dressed — we're leaving in ten minutes! tree →
• She wore a blue dress to the party. tree →
• We dressed up as pirates for the fancy dress party. tree →
• Dress warmly; it's snowing. tree →
• The nurse dressed the cut with a clean bandage. tree →
• Mum dressed the salad with olive oil. tree →
• The dress rehearsal is the day before the play. tree →
• The baby can't dress himself yet. tree →
• The title agreed with the dress. tree →

note

Plural: dresses (add -es after ss). "Get dressed" is more natural than "dress myself" in daily speech. "Dress up" means wear special clothes or costumes; "dress down" means wear more casual clothes. A "dressing" is a bandage, a salad sauce, or (US) stuffing.

In the corpora

• Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.
• Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.
• The stage crew work backstage, often dressed in black so the audience does not notice them.
• «Everyone knows homework is pointless» sounds like a fact, but it is an opinion dressed up as one.
• An opinion can be dressed up to sound like a fact, for example with «everyone knows».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dress» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.