different between dress vs fashion

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

Alternative forms

• fascion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin facti? (“a making”), from faci? (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Noun

fashion (countable and uncountable, plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   • the innocent diversions in fashion

   • 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Part IV

     As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

3. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
4. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

   • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
5. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: fasin
• ? Bengali: ?????? (ppha?ôn)
• ? Burmese: ??????? (hpakhrang)
• ? Hindi: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Irish: faisean
• ? Japanese: ?????? (fasshon)
• ? Korean: ?? (paesyeon)
• ? Malay: fesyen
  • Indonesian: fesyen
• ? Portuguese: fashion
• ? Scottish Gaelic: fasan (perhaps)
• ? Sotho: feshene
• ? Spanish: fashion
• ? Thai: ?????? (f??-chân)
• ? Urdu: ????? (fai?an)
• ? Welsh: ffasiwn

Translations

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist, translation by Lesley Brown, 235b:

     […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

   • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

   • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.

4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Derived terms

• disfashion
• misfashion
• newfashion
• refashion
• fashioning needle
• unfashioned

Translations

Further reading

• fashion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fashion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facção and feição.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.?õ/

Adjective

fashion (invariable, comparable)

1. (slang) fashionable, trendy

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of facción.

Adjective

fashion (invariable)

1. fashionable, trendy

Derived terms

Noun

fashion m (plural fashions or fashion)

1. fashion