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say it: dres
dress is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "put on clothes". It carries 21 recorded senses.
put on clothes
“we had to dress quickly”
“dress the patient”
“Can the child dress by herself?”
cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
“formal attire”
“battle dress”
clothing in general
“she was refined in her choice of apparel”
“he always bought his clothes at the same store”
“fastidious about his dress”
plural
suitable for formal occasions
“formal wear”
“a full-dress uniform”
“dress shoes”
(of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
“a dress dinner”
“a full-dress ceremony”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dress come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.