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say it: DRES-ing
dressing is a noun meaning "savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type". It carries 7 recorded senses.
savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
a cloth covering for a wound or sore
processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
the act of applying a bandage
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 dressing 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.