dresser

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old French dresseur, from the verb dresser.

Noun [edit]

dresser (plural dressers)

  1. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
    • 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
      The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
      But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
  2. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
  3. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
  4. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Translations [edit]
kitchen furniture
bedroom furniture

Etymology 2 [edit]

From dress +‎ -er.

Noun [edit]

dresser (plural dressers)

  1. Agent noun of dress:
    1. One who dresses in a particular way.
      He's a very snappy dresser.
    2. A wardrobe assistant in a theatre.
    3. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
      • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:
        On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
Translations [edit]
one who dresses in a particular way
wardrobe assistant in a theatre

Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Vulgar Latin *directiare, from Latin dīrectus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct.

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

dresser

  1. (transitive) to erect, put up
  2. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
  3. (transitive) to lift, raise
  4. (transitive) to set, lay out
    Est-ce qu'il a dressé la table? Has he laid the table?
  5. (transitive) to tame (lion etc), break in (horse), to train (an animal)
  6. (reflexive) to stand

Conjugation [edit]

   Conjugation of dresser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive dresser avoir dressé
gerund en dressant en ayant dressé
present participle dressant
past participle dressé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present dresse dresses dresse dressons dressez dressent
imperfect dressais dressais dressait dressions dressiez dressaient
past historic1 dressai dressas dressa dressâmes dressâtes dressèrent
future dresserai dresseras dressera dresserons dresserez dresseront
conditional dresserais dresserais dresserait dresserions dresseriez dresseraient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present dresse dresses dresse dressions dressiez dressent
imperfect1 dressasse dressasses dressât dressassions dressassiez dressassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— dresse — dressons dressez —
1literary tenses
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