English主要词典
dress
Universal Words
noun, verb
noun
clothes
1 [C] a piece of women's clothing that is made in one piece and covers the body down to the legs, sometimes reaching to below the knees, or to the ankles:
a long white dress * a wedding dress
seealsoCOCKTAILDRESS, EVENINGDRESS, SUNDRESS
2 [U] clothes for either men or women:
to wear casual / formal dress * He has no dress sense (= no idea of how to dress well). * The company has a strict dress code-all male employees are expected to wear suits.
seealsoEVENINGDRESS, FANCYDRESS, MORNINGDRESS, HEADDRESS
verb
clothes
1 ~ (sb) (in sth) to put clothes on yourself/sb:
[V] I dressed quickly. * [VN] She dressed herself and the children in their best clothes. * Get up and get dressed! * The children spend hours dressing and undressing their dolls.
OPPUNDRESS
2 [V] ~ (sb) (for / in / as sth) to wear a particular type or style of clothes:
to dress well / badly / fashionably / comfortably * You should dress for cold weather today. * She always dressed entirely in black. * He was dressed as a woman (= he was wearing women's clothes).
3 [V] to put on formal clothes:
Do they expect us to dress for dinner?
4 [VN] to provide clothes for sb:
He dresses many of Hollywood's most famous young stars.
wound
5 [VN] to clean, treat and cover a wound:
The nurse will dress that cut for you.
food
6 [VN] to prepare food for cooking or eating:
to dress a salad (= put oil or vinegar, etc. on it) * to dress a chicken (= clean it ready for cooking)
decorate
7 [VN] (formal) to decorate or arrange sth:
to dress a shop window (= arrange a display of clothes or goods in it)
stone / wood / leather
8 [VN] to prepare a material such as stone, wood, leather, etc. for use
IDIOMS see MUTTON, PARTn.
PHRASALVERBS
dress down to wear clothes that are more informal than those you usually wear, for example in an office
dress sb down to criticize or be angry with sb because they have done sth wrong
dress up to wear clothes that are more formal than those you usually wear:
There's no need to dress up-come as you are.
dress up
