Word Meanings - DRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks. (more info) prepare, arrange, F. dresser. LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct;

Additional info about word: DRESS

To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks. (more info) prepare, arrange, F. dresser. LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right, and 1. To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways. Chaucer. Note: Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of "to direct one's step; to addresss one's self." To Grisild again will I me dresse. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRESS)

• Apparel
• Clothes
• robes
• vesture
• vestments
• raiment
• garniture
• habiliments
• habit
• dress
• clothing
• caparison
• trappings
• housings
• Array Vest
• deck
• equip
• decorate
• rank
• adorn
• accoutre
• invest
• attire
• place
• arrange
• draw up
• marshal
• set in order
• dispose
• Clothe
• Invest
• robe
• drape
• array
• cover
• Garb
• Dress
• uniform
• costume
• apparel
• Garble
• Misrepresent
• misquote
• mutilate
• cook
• color
• falsify
• pervert
• distort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRESS)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip
• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice

Related words: (words related to DRESS)

• EQUIPENSATE
  To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.