different between dress vs romper

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp?(r)

Etymology 1

romp +? -er

Noun

romper (plural rompers)

1. Someone who romps or frolics.
2. (nautical) A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy; see also straggler.

Etymology 2

Short for romper suit.

Noun

romper (plural rompers)

1. A onesie.

Etymology 3

From Romper Room, name of a children's television series. See romp.

Verb

romper (third-person singular simple present rompers, present participle rompering, simple past and past participle rompered)

1. (Ireland, historical, transitive) To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered.
   • 2003, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English romper, from English romper suit. In folk etymology, the word is linked with Dutch romp (“torso”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?m.p?r/
• Hyphenation: rom?per
• Rhymes: -?mp?r

Noun

romper m (plural rompers, diminutive rompertje n)

1. a one-piece garment for an infant or small child; a onesie or romper
2. an adult loungewear jumpsuit; a onesie or romper

Usage notes

For the baby version, the dimunitive rompertje is often used.

Ladin

Alternative forms

• rompe

Etymology

From Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?.

Verb

romper

1. to break

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese romper, from Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?, from Proto-Italic *rump?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti (“to break”), from the root *Hrewp-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?õ.?pe?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?õ.?pe(?)/
• Hyphenation: rom?per

Verb

romper (first-person singular present indicative rompo, past participle rompido)

1. to break

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:romper.

Related terms

• corromper
• roçar
• roto
• rotura

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish romper, from Latin rumpere, present active infinitive of rump?, from Proto-Italic *rump?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti ~ *Hrumpénti (“to break”), from the root *Hrewp-. Cognate with French rompre, Italian rompere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rom?pe?/, [rõm?pe?]

Verb

romper (first-person singular present rompo, first-person singular preterite rompí, past participle roto)

1. to break

   Synonyms: despedazar, destrozar, destruir, derribar, derrumbar, arruinar, quebrar

2. to break up, terminate (a relationship, friendship etc.)

3. (with a) to begin to do something

   Synonyms: comenzar, empezar

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Usage notes

• Spanish verb romper does not mean break down, but English verb break having the sense of break down is often mistranslated as romper.