different between dressing vs vinaigrette

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

Alternative forms

• vinegarette (box for vinegar or smelling salts)

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n-?-gr?t?, IPA^(key): /v?n?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vinaigrette (countable and uncountable, plural vinaigrettes)

1. A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
2. (obsolete) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; called also vinegarette.
   • 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?

     Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"

3. (obsolete) A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a person.
4. A sort of Russian salad, originally using French salad dressing.

Synonyms

• (sauce): French dressing, Italian dressing, Greek dressing, vinaigrette dressing, vinaigrette sauce, vinaigrette salad sauce

Derived terms

• vinaigrette dressing
• vinaigrette sauce

Translations

Anagrams

• integrative, vertiginate

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Noun

vinaigrette c (singular definite vinaigretten, not used in plural form)

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

References

• “vinaigrette” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Alternative forms

• vinegrette
• vinegretti

Etymology

Borrowed from French vinaigrette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ine?ret?e/, [??ine???re?t??e?]
• IPA^(key): /??in?i??ret?e/, [??in?i???re?t??e?]
• Syllabification: vi?naig?ret?te

Noun

vinaigrette

1. vinaigrette (sauce)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.n?.???t/

Etymology 1

From vinaigre +? -ette.

Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing

Descendants

• ? Catalan: vinagreta
• ? English: vinaigrette
• ? Russian: ????????? m (vinegrét)

Etymology 2

From vinaigre (root of vinaigrier, which it resembles) +? -ette.

Noun

vinaigrette f (plural vinaigrettes)

1. vinaigrette (vehicle)

Further reading

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