dressing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dress=ing
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dressing, n.
1 in senses of DRESS v.
2 a an accompaniment to salads, usu. a mixture of oil with other ingredients; a sauce or seasoning (French dressing). b US stuffing.
3 a a bandage for a wound. b ointment etc. used to dress a wound.
4 size or stiffening used to finish fabrics.
5 compost etc. spread over land (a top dressing of peat).

Idiom

dressing-case a case containing toiletries etc. dressing-down colloq. a scolding; a severe reprimand. dressing-gown a loose usu. belted robe worn over nightwear or while resting. dressing-room
1 a room for changing the clothes etc. in a theatre, sports-ground, etc.
2 a small room attached to a bedroom, containing clothes. dressing-station esp. Mil. a place for giving emergency treatment to wounded people. dressing-table a table with a mirror, drawers, etc., used while applying make-up etc.

THESAURUS

dressing

Ace bandage, Band-Aid, ablation, abrasion, abrasive, adhesive tape, ammonia, apparel, application, array, ass-reaming, attire, attrition, band, bandage, bandaging, bawling-out, bedizenment, binder, brace, buffing, burnishing, cast, castor-bean meal, cataplasm, chafe, chafing, chewing, clothes, clothing, commercial fertilizer, compost, compress, contour plowing, costume, cotton, court plaster, cravat, cultivating, cultivation, culture, cussing-out, detrition, drapery, dress, dressing-down, duds, dung, elastic bandage, enrichener, epithem, erasure, erosion, fallowing, farce, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fertilizer, fig, filing, forcemeat, four-tailed bandage, fretting, furrowing, galling, garb, garments, gauze, gear, going-over, grazing, grinding, guano, guise, habiliment, habit, harrowing, hoeing, investiture, investment, jacking-up, limation, linen, lint, listing, manure, muck, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, organic fertilizer, phosphate, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, plowing, polishing, poultice, pruning, rags, raiment, raking-down, rasping, reaming, reaming-out, roasting, robes, roller, roller bandage, rubber bandage, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, setdown, shining, sling, smoothing, speaking-to, splint, sponge, sportswear, stuffing, stupe, style, superphosphate, talking-to, tampon, tape, tent, thinning, threads, tilling, togs, toilette, tourniquet, triangular bandage, trim, vestment, vesture, wear, wearing apparel, wearing away, weeding, what-for, working

ROGET THESAURUS

dressing

Disapprobation

N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.