different between dress vs fress
dress
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)
- (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). [from 15thc.]
- (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes. [from 18thc.]
- (sports, transitive, intransitive) To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers. [from 20thc.]
- (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it. [from 15thc.]
- 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?
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,[2]
- (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready. [14th-16thc.]
- To adorn, ornament. [from 15thc.]
- ?, 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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Merman
- (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.
- (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.
- 2012, Marvin Silbersher, A Fistful of Stars (page 106)
- (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person). [from 15thc.]
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- 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
- (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
- (transitive) To manure (land).
- (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
- (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!
- 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)
- (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.
- (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
- The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
- 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)
- (clothing) a suit (either formal wear, or leisure or sports wear)
Etymology 2
Verb
dress
- 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)
- (clothing) a suit (either formal wear, or leisure or sports wear)
References
- “dress” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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fress
English
Etymology
From Yiddish ??????? (fresn) or German fressen (“to devour, gobble”), from Middle High German vrezzen, from Old High German frezzan (“to devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetan? (“to eat up”), from *fra- (intensive and perfective prefix) + *etan? (“to eat”), equivalent to for- +? eat. Cognate with Old English fretan (“to devour”). Doublet of fret.
In German, fressen (eat) and saufen (drink) are used about non-humans, whereas the corresponding words used about human behavior are essen and trinken. "Es trinkt der Mann, es säuft das Pferd / bei manchem ist es umgekehrt" ("the man drinks, the horse gulps it down / [but] with many it's the other way 'round") is a common humorous couplet in German with many variations (e.g., ...in Bayern ist es...)
Verb
fress (third-person singular simple present fresses, present participle fressing, simple past and past participle fressed)
- (obsolete) to eat without restraint; eat heartily
- Synonym: pig out
Anagrams
- serfs
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fr?s?/
- Rhymes: -?s?
Noun
fress n (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fress) or fress m (genitive singular fress, nominative plural fressar)
- tomcat
Declension
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