different between clad vs dressed

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /klæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English cl?ðan (past tense cl?ðde, *clædde), probably from cl?þ, cl?þ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh?y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).

Verb

clad

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe

Etymology 2

From Middle English clad(d), cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen (“to put clothing on, clothe, dress”), from Old English cl?ðian, cl?þian (“to clothe”) (past participle ?ecl?ded, ?eclaðed, ?eclaðod), from cl?þ, cl?þ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”); see further at etymology 1.

Adjective

clad (not comparable)

1. (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

   Synonyms: attired, beclad, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed

   Antonyms: unclad; see also Thesaurus:naked
2. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
3. (figuratively) Adorned, ornamented.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Apparently derived from clad (adjective); see etymology 2. Uses of clad as the simple past and past participle form of clad are indistinguishable from uses of the word as the simple past and past participle form of clothe.

Verb

clad (third-person singular simple present clads, present participle cladding, simple past and past participle clad or cladded)

1. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
2. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
3. (figuratively, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cladded (adjective)
• cladder
• cladding (noun)

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References

Anagrams

• DACL

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

dressed

1. simple past tense and past participle of dress
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

   the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

Translations

Adjective

dressed (not comparable)

1. Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. [from 14th c.]
2. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. [from 16th c.]
3. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (wearing clothes): dressed, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed

Anagrams

• eddress