dressing
Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
Other meanings
A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
Synonyms
- salad dressing
A kind of
- sauce
Kinds of dressing
- blue cheese dressing
- anchovy dressing
- half-and-half dressing
- mayonnaise
- salad cream
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "dressing,dressinge,dressynge".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dressing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.