different between dress vs direct

English

Etymology

From Middle English dressen, from Old French dresser, drescer, drecier (“to erect, set up, arrange, dress”), from Medieval Latin *directi?, an assumed frequentative, from Latin directus (“straight, direct”), perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + reg? (“make straight, rule”). See direct.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?s, IPA^(key): /d??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

1. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). [from 15^thc.]
2. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. [from 18^thc.]
3. (sports, transitive, intransitive) To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.

4. (intransitive, euphemistic) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers. [from 20^thc.]

5. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it. [from 15^thc.]
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,^[2]

     Here, love; thou seest how diligent I am,

     To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee:

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 142-143,^[3]

     OLD WOMAN. […] he sent all his men out of his Land.

     FROLICKE. Who drest his dinner then?

6. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready. [14^th-16^thc.]
7. To adorn, ornament. [from 15^thc.]
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Merman

     dressing their hair with the white sea flower

   • 1884, James Anthony Froude, Life of Carlyle

     If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.

8. (nautical) 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.
9. (transitive, theater, film, television) To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
   • 2012, Marvin Silbersher, A Fistful of Stars (page 106)

     Mallory, all night long, single-handedly painted and dressed the set so that at eight o'clock Sunday morning when we arrived to make breakfast in the kitchen, there she was sound asleep on the davenport in the set, every prop in place.

11. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person). [from 15^thc.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

      Daily she dressed him, and did the best / His grievous hurt to guarish, that she might […].

    • 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.

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

    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

    • When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense.

    • three hundred horses […] smoothly dressed

13. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
14. (transitive) To manure (land).
15. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
16. (military, transitive, intransitive, sometimes imperative) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align.

    to dress the ranks

    Right, dress!

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

Synonyms

• (clothe (something or somebody)): clothe, don; see also Thesaurus:clothe
• (clothe oneself): get dressed
• (prepare the surface of):
• (bandage (a wound)): bandage, put a bandage on, put a dressing on

Antonyms

• (clothe (something or somebody): strip, undress
• (clothe oneself): disrobe, get undressed, strip, undress

Derived terms

Related terms

• dressage

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: dresi

Translations

Noun

dress (countable and uncountable, plural dresses)

1. (countable) 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.

2. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.

3. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
4. A dress rehearsal.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (doresu)
• ? Korean: ??? (deureseu)
• ? Norwegian: dress
• ? Pennsylvania German: Dress
• ? Scottish Gaelic: dreasa

Translations

See also

• ????

Further reading

• dress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dress at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “dress”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “dress” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• dress (adjective) in Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English dress, from Middle English dressen, from Old French dresser, drescer, drecier (“to erect, set up, arrange, dress”), from either Medieval Latin d?r?cti? (“direction, aiming, correction”) or Vulgar Latin dir?cti?re, from Latin d?rectus (“straight, direct, directed”), from Proto-Italic *dwizrektos, perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from Proto-Italic *dwizreg?, from both dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”), from Proto-Italic *dwis-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice, doubly, in two”) + reg? (“I make straight, rule”), from Proto-Italic *reg?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ré?eti (“to straighten; right”), from *h?re?- (“to straighten, to right oneself, just”).

Noun

dress m (definite singular dressen, indefinite plural dresser, definite plural dressene)

1. (clothing) a suit (either formal wear, or leisure or sports wear)

Etymology 2

Verb

dress

1. imperative of dresse

References

• “dress” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dress (verb: kle på seg)

Noun

dress m (definite singular dressen, indefinite plural dressar, definite plural dressane)

1. (clothing) a suit (either formal wear, or leisure or sports wear)

References

• “dress” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + reg? (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d(a)????kt/, /d????kt/, /da??????kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: di?rect

Adjective

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

3. Straightforward; sincere.
4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

   • He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     a direct and avowed interference with elections

5. In the line of descent; not collateral.

6. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
7. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.

8. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.

Synonyms

• (proceeding uninterrupted): immediate
• (express, plain, unambiguous): explicit, patent, univocal; see also Thesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• indirect

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. Directly.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:

     Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct.

Verb

direct (third-person singular simple present directs, present participle directing, simple past and past participle directed)

1. To manage, control, steer.

   to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army

2. To aim (something) at (something else).

   They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.

   He directed his question to the room in general.

3. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.

   He directed me to the left-hand road.

   • 1882, John Lubbock, Flowers, Fruits and Leaves

     the next points to which I will direct your attention

4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.

   She directed them to leave immediately.
5. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.

   to direct a letter

Derived terms

• co-direct, codirect
• misdirect
• redirect

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Credit, credit, triced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French direct, from Latin d?r?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?r?kt/
• Hyphenation: di?rect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

direct (comparative directer, superlative directst)

1. direct, immediate
2. direct, blunt, frank

Inflection

Adverb

direct

1. immediately

Synonyms

• onmiddellijk
• meteen
• rechtstreeks

Derived terms

• drek

Descendants

• Afrikaans: direk
• ? Papiamentu: dirèkt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??kt/
• Homophones: directe, directes, directs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus. Doublet of droit, which was inherited.

Adjective

direct (feminine singular directe, masculine plural directs, feminine plural directes)

1. direct

Etymology 2

From directement.

Adverb

direct

1. (colloquial) directly

   Si t'as pas envie d'y aller, dis-le direct.

   • 'If you don't want to go, say it straight up.'

Derived terms

Related terms

• diriger
• directeur
• direction

See also

• droit

Anagrams

• crédit
• décrit
• dicter

Further reading

• “direct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig?, d?rigere (“straighten, direct”). Compare the inherited drait, drouait.

Adjective

direct m

1. (Jersey) direct

Derived terms

• directément (“directly”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French direct, Latin directus. Compare the inherited doublet drept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?rekt/

Adjective

direct m or n (feminine singular direct?, masculine plural direc?i, feminine and neuter plural directe)

1. direct
2. head-on

Declension

Adverb

direct

1. directly
2. straight