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See also: Dressing

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

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.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:
      She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
  2. (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
    • 2021 July 21, Gabrielle Hamilton, “A Salad So Good You Can Eat It for Breakfast”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      I was even more excited to tailor it with a choice of dressings — blue cheese, ranch, French, Russian, Italian, creamy Italian.
  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.
  6. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
    Synonym: 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.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:
      "I once saw what a dressing he gave a silly chattering fool, that answered his challenge some time before."
  10. (dated) The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: Dressing
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

Noun

dressing m (plural dressings, diminutive dressinkje n)

  1. A dressing, a cold sauce for salads.

See also

French

Pronunciation

Noun

dressing m (plural dressings)

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

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

dressing

  1. Alternative form of dressynge

Polish

Etymology

From English dressing.

Pronunciation

Template:pl-p

Noun

dressing m inan

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

Declension

Declension of dressing
singular plural
nominative dressing dressingi
genitive dressingu dressingów
dative dressingowi dressingom
accusative dressing dressingi
instrumental dressingiem dressingami
locative dressingu dressingach
vocative dressingu dressingi

Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

dressing c

  1. dressing, a kind of sauce.

Declension

Declension of dressing
nominative genitive
singular indefinite dressing dressings
definite dressingen dressingens
plural indefinite dressingar dressingars
definite dressingarna dressingarnas
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