dress

dress¹ W2S2 [dres] n

1.)

a piece of clothing worn by a woman or girl that covers the top of her body and part or all of her legs

→↑skirt

▪ Sheila wore a long red dress.

▪ a summer dress

2.) [U]

clothes for men or women of a particular type or for a particular occasion

▪ a gentleman in evening dress (=formal clothes worn especially at important social events)

▪ The play was performed in modern dress (=clothes from the present time) .

dress code

(=a standard of what you should wear for a particular situation)

▪ This restaurant has a strict dress code - no tie, no service.

dress ²

dress² W2S2 v

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1¦(put on clothes)¦

2¦(wear clothes)¦

3¦(make/choose clothes)¦

4¦(wound/cut etc)¦

5¦(meat/fish)¦

6¦(salad)¦

7¦(window)¦

8¦(soldiers)¦

9¦(hair)¦

10¦(wood/stone etc)¦

Phrasal verbs

　dress down

　dress up

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[Date: 1300-1400; : Old French; Origin: dresser 'to arrange', from Latin directus 'straight'; DIRECT¹]

1.) ¦(PUT ON CLOTHES)¦ [I and T]

to put clothes on yourself or someone else

▪ Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress.

▪ I dress the kids before I go to work.

▪ I've got to go home to dress.

▪ I dressed quickly.

dress sb in sth

▪ She dressed Louis in his best blue jersey.

2.) ¦(WEAR CLOTHES)¦

to wear a particular kind of clothes

▪ Dress warmly if you're going out for a walk.

dress casually/smartly

▪ I spend most of my time in the house with young children, so I dress casually.

dress for

▪ How do you normally dress for work?

▪ We usually dress for dinner (=wear formal clothes for our evening meal) .

3.) ¦(MAKE/CHOOSE CLOTHES)¦ [T]

to make or choose clothes for someone

▪ Versace dressed some of the most famous people in Hollywood.

4.) ¦(WOUND/CUT ETC)¦ [T]

to clean, treat, and cover a wound

5.) ¦(MEAT/FISH)¦ [T]

to clean and prepare meat or fish so that it is ready to cook or eat

▪ dressed crab

6.) ¦(SALAD)¦ [T]

to put oil, ↑vinegar, salt etc onto a ↑salad

7.) ¦(WINDOW)¦ [T]

to put an attractive arrangement in a shop window

→↑window dresser

8.) ¦(SOLDIERS)¦ [I and T]

[i]technical to stand in a straight line, or to make soldiers do this

9.) ¦(HAIR)¦ [T] formal

to arrange someone's hair into a special style

10.)¦(WOOD/STONE ETC)¦ [T]

technical to prepare or put a special surface onto wood, stone, leather etc

dress down phr v

1.) to wear clothes that are more informal than the ones you would usually wear

▪ In many offices, people dress down on Fridays.

2.) dress sb<=>down

to speak angrily to someone about something they have done wrong

→↑dressing-down

dress up phr v

1.) to wear special clothes for fun, or to put special clothes on someone

dress up as

▪ He went to the party dressed up as a Chicago gangster.

dress up in

▪ I keep a box of old clothes for the children to dress up in.

dress sb<=>up

▪ We dressed him up as a gorilla.

2.) to wear clothes that are more formal than the ones you would usually wear

▪ It's a small informal party - you don't have to dress up.

3.) dress sth<=>up

to make something more interesting or attractive

▪ It was the old offer dressed up as something new.

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HINT sense 1

In spoken English, it is more usual to say get dressed .

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