different between dress vs habit
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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habit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæb?t/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?hæb?t/
- Rhymes: -æb?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English habit, from Latin habitus (“condition, bearing, state, appearance, dress, attire”), from habe? (“I have, hold, keep”). Replaced Middle English abit, from Old French abit, itself from the same Latin source. Displaced native Old English þ?aw.
Noun
habit (countable and uncountable, plural habits)
- An action performed on a regular basis.
- Synonym: wont
- a man of very shy, retired habits
- An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
- A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
- A piece of clothing worn uniformly for a specific activity.
- (archaic) Outward appearance; attire; dress.
- There are, among the statues, several of Venus, in different habits.
- (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance of a variety or species of plant or crystal.
- An addiction.
Related terms
- exhibit
- habitual
- habituate
- habitus
- inhibit
- prohibit
Derived terms
- eating habit
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English habiten, from Old French habiter, from Latin habit?re, present active infinitive of habit? (“I dwell, abide, keep”), frequentative of habe? (“I have, hold, keep”); see have.
Verb
habit (third-person singular simple present habits, present participle habiting, simple past and past participle habited)
- (transitive) To clothe.
- (transitive, archaic) To inhabit.
Related terms
- habitat
- habitation
Translations
Further reading
- habit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- habit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Ba'thi
Albanian
Etymology
According to Orel, borrowed from a South Slavic language and ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *xabiti (“to spoil, to waste”). Compare Old Church Slavonic ?????? (xabiti), Serbo-Croatian habiti (“damage, destroy”), and Bulgarian ???? (habja, “destroy, spend; blunt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha?bit/
Verb
habit (first-person singular past tense habita, participle habitur)
- I surprise
- I astonish
- (Gheg; northern Albania and Kosovo) I distract, confuse
Derived terms
- habi
- habitshëm
- habitur
- habitje
- habitore
References
French
Etymology
From Old French habit, abit, borrowed from Latin habitus.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.bi/
Noun
habit m (plural habits)
- article of clothing, garment, dress-coat, evening dress, tails, full dress
Derived terms
- l'habit ne fait pas le moine
Related terms
- habiller
- habillement
Descendants
- ? German: Habit
Further reading
- “habit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
habit m (oblique plural habiz or habitz, nominative singular habiz or habitz, nominative plural habit)
- Alternative form of abit
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa.b?it/
Noun
habit m inan
- habit (clothing worn by monks and nuns)
Declension
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