dressing

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

Noun

dressing (countable and uncountable; plural dressings)

1. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.

2. A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
3. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
4. The activity of getting dressed.

Derived terms

• dressing gown
• dressing stick

Translations

material applied to a wound for protection or therapy

• Bulgarian: превръзка (bg) (prevrǎzka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敷料 (cmn) (fūliào)

• Finnish: side (fi), haavaside (fi)
• German: Verband (de) m

• Japanese: 繃帯 (ja) (ほうたい, hōtai)
• Polish: opatrunek (pl) m
• Russian: перевязка (ru) (perevjázka) f, повязка (ru) (povjázka) f
• Spanish: vendaje (es) m

a sauce, especially a cold one for salads

• Bulgarian: сос (bg) (sos) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調味汁 (cmn), 调味汁 (cmn) (tiáowèizhī), 作料 (cmn) (zuóliao)

• Czech: dresink (cs) m
• Finnish: salaattikastike (fi)
• German: Dressing (de)

• Hungarian: salátaöntet (hu)
• Japanese: ドレッシング (ja) (doresshingu)
• Macedonian: прелив (mk) (préliv) m
• Russian: соус (ru) (sóus) m, приправа (ru) (pripráva) f
• Scottish Gaelic: sgeadachadh (gd) m
• Swedish: dressing (sv) c

something added to the soil as a fertilizer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥料 (cmn) (féiliào)

• Finnish: lannoite (fi), maanparannusaine (fi)

• Japanese: 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō)
• Russian: удобрение (ru) (udobrénije) n

the activity of getting dressed

• Bulgarian: обличане (bg) (obličane) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穿衣 (cmn) (chuānyī)

• Finnish: pukeutuminen (fi)

• German: Ankleiden (de) n
• Macedonian: облекување (mk) (oblekúvanje)
• Romanian: imbracat (ro)
• Russian: одевание (ru) (odevánije) n
• Swedish: påklädning (sv) c, påklädnad (sv) c

Verb

dressing

1. Present participle of dress.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dresiŋ/

Noun

dressing c

1. dressing, a kind of sauce.

Declension

Declension of dressing

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dressing	dressingen	dressingar	dressingarna
genitive	dressings	dressingens	dressingars	dressingarnas