dressing

«dressing» in Mova's school dictionary: A sauce, usually of oil, vinegar or cream, poured over… — 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 (dressing; a dressing, dressings); also the -ing form of dress (dress, dresses, dressed, dressing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sauce, usually of oil, vinegar or cream, poured over salad: «salad dressing». tree →

2) A covering such as a pad or bandage put on a wound to protect it. tree →

3) (US) Stuffing for a turkey or chicken. tree →

4) (verb) Putting clothes on. tree →

5) Getting a salad, a wound, or a shop window ready: «window dressing». tree →

6) A dressing-gown is a loose robe worn over pyjamas or nightclothes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In first aid lessons, a sterile dressing covers a cut to keep germs out. In cooking, dressing is the sauce for salad. In everyday life, «getting dressed» and «dressing up» (in costumes) are common. Phrases: «salad dressing», «a wound dressing», «dressing gown» (UK, a robe), «dressing room», «dressing-down» (a telling-off), «dressing up».

examples

• Pour the dressing over the salad. tree →
• The nurse put a clean dressing on the cut. tree →
• (US) We had turkey with dressing at Thanksgiving. tree →
• Hurry up, you're still dressing! tree →
• Put your dressing gown on, it's cold. tree →
• The actors changed in the dressing room. tree →
• The coach gave the team a real dressing-down after they lost. tree →
• The General was walking about in his dressing-gown. tree →

note

Countable or uncountable for salad dressing. «Dressing gown» (UK, Aus) = «bathrobe/robe» (US). In first aid, wash your hands before touching a dressing and ask an adult for help with deep cuts.

In the corpora

• He wears a long dressing-gown, carries a flat candlestick, and «had probably been on his way to bed».
• Shake a bottle of salad dressing and the oil breaks into tiny droplets for a while, but the droplets soon join up again.
• Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing.
• Breakfast takes 20 minutes and washing and dressing take 25 minutes, so he must get up by 7:00.
• When dressing, underwear goes on first, then clothes, then socks and shoes.

Trees and pragmatics

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