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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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gear
English
Etymology
From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: gîr, IPA(key): /???(?)/
- (US) enPR: gîr, IPA(key): /???/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Noun
gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)
- (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- Clothing; garments.
- (obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)
- (countable) A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
- Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel
- (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
- (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
- (slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
- 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
- 2003, Marianne Hancock, Looking for Oliver (page 90)
- (uncountable, archaic) Stuff.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
- (obsolete) Business matters; affairs; concern.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gear (third-person singular simple present gears, present participle gearing, simple past and past participle geared)
- (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
- To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
- This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
- They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
- (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
gear (comparative more gear, superlative most gear)
- (chiefly Liverpudlian) great or fantastic
Anagrams
- Ager, GRAE, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, rage
Manx
Alternative forms
- geayr, geyre
Etymology
From Old Irish gér.
Verb
gear (verbal noun gearey)
- to laugh, chuckle
Adjective
gear
- sharp, keen
- sour, acid
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old English
Alternative forms
- ??r, ??r – Anglian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *j?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?r-. Cognate with Old Frisian j?r (West Frisian jier), Old Saxon j?r (Middle Low German jâr), Dutch jaar, Old High German j?r (German Jahr), Old Norse ár (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish år, Icelandic/Faroese ár), Gothic ???????????? (j?r). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “season”), Russian ??? (jara), Czech jaro, Lithuanian jore (“springtime”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jæ???r/
Noun
??ar n (nominative plural ??ar)
- year
- the runic character ? (/j/)
Declension
Derived terms
- ??ardagas
- ??arl??
- ?e?ra (uncertain)
Descendants
- Middle English: yeer, here, yere, ?ere
- English: year
- Scots: year
Portuguese
Etymology
From an Old Portuguese *gear (compare geo), from Latin gel?re, present active infinitive of gel?. Doublet of the borrowing gelar. Compare also Galician xear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?i?a?]
Verb
gear (first-person singular present indicative geio, past participle geado)
- (impersonal) to frost (weather)
Conjugation
Related terms
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????r/
Adverb
gear
- together
Further reading
- “gear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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