different between dressing vs bandage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??s??/
• Rhymes: -?s??

Etymology 1

From Middle English dressing, dressinge, dressynge, equivalent to dress +? -ing.

Noun

dressing (countable and uncountable, plural dressings)

1. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
2. A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
3. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
4. The activity of getting dressed.
   • 2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations (page 182)

     Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.

5. (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

     Women ought to repair the losses , time and years have made in their features, with dressings

6. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
7. Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
8. An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
9. (dated) Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
10. (dated) the process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dressynge, dressande, equivalent to dress +? -ing.

Verb

dressing

1. present participle of dress

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dressing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr?.s??/
• Hyphenation: dres?sing
• Rhymes: -?s??

Noun

dressing m (plural dressings, diminutive dressinkje n)

1. A dressing, a cold sauce for salads.

See also

• slasaus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.si?/

Noun

dressing m (plural dressings)

1. wardrobe
2. dressing room (small walk-in room off a bedroom)

Middle English

Noun

dressing

1. Alternative form of dressynge

Polish

Etymology

From English dressing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr?.sink/

Noun

dressing m inan

1. dressing (sauce, especially a cold one for salads)

Declension

Further reading

• dressing in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dressing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dresi?/

Noun

dressing c

1. dressing, a kind of sauce.

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bænd?d?/

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
   • 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.

2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
   • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]

     […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

Derived terms

Related terms

• dressing
• plaster
• splint

Translations

Verb

bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

1. To apply a bandage to something.
   • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [3]

     ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

Translations

Anagrams

• Adangbe, Dagbane

Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banda?sj?/, [b?an?d?æ???]

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

Inflection

Derived terms

• gipsbandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?n?da???/
• Hyphenation: ban?da?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

1. bandage

   Synonym: zwachtel

Derived terms

• bandagist

French

Etymology

bande +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.da?/

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Descendants

• ? Danish: bandage
• ? Dutch: bandage
• ? English: bandage
• ? German: Bandage
• ? Polish: banda?
• ? Swedish: bandage

Further reading

• “bandage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

1. bandage

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

1. a bandage

Declension

Anagrams

• bangade