different between dressing vs compress

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 1

From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprim? (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + prem? (“press”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?mpr?s', IPA^(key): /k?m?p??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

compress (third-person singular simple present compresses, present participle compressing, simple past and past participle compressed)

1. (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
   • June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument

     events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life

   • 1810, William Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny

     The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.

2. (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.

3. (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.

4. (transitive) To abridge.

5. (technology, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
6. (obsolete) To embrace sexually.
   • 1727, Alexander Pope, Metamorphoses

     This Nymph compress'd by him who rules the day,
     Whom Delphi and the Delian isle obey,
     Andræmon lov'd; and , bless'd in all those charms
     That pleas'd a God, succeeded to her arms

Synonyms

• (press together): compact, condense, pack, press, squash, squeeze; see also Thesaurus:compress
• (be pressed together): contract
• (condense, abridge): abridge, condense, shorten, truncate; see also Thesaurus:shorten

Antonyms

• (press together): expand
• (be pressed together): decontract
• (condense, abridge): expand, lengthen
• (make computing data smaller): uncompress

Derived terms

Related terms

• compression

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French compresse, from compresse (“to compress”), from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprim? (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + prem? (“press”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp??s/
• (US) enPR: k?m'pr?s, IPA^(key): /?k?mp??s/

Noun

compress (plural compresses)

2. A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.

3. A machine for compressing.

Related terms

• compression

Translations