What's the difference between attire and overdress?
Attire
Definition:
(v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
(n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
(n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
(n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
Example Sentences:
(1) The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control are currently stressing the need for protective clinical attire and barrier techniques to reduce cross-contamination and the spread of diseases.
(2) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
(3) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
(4) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
(5) If the vendors are similarly attired then this doesn't help either," says Tim Dansie at Jackson-Stops & Staff.
(6) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
(7) Many program directors indicated they are considering changes in clinical attire requirements in the future because of concern for infection control.
(8) Latex gloves have become a standard part of OR attire, and even though they serve as the primary form of hand protection in the OR, gloves also may serve as one of the key causes of contact or allergic dermatitis in OR personnel.
(9) Thus attired, she demanded a second audition as the fat nurse – and got the part, as Nurse Hilda Price.
(10) To study patient preferences on physician attire and etiquette, we interviewed 200 patients on the general medical services of teaching hospitals in Boston and San Francisco.
(11) Setback of the week Dubai: Greek model Vicky Xipolitakis – flying to Dubai in an attempt to reach Diego Maradona's 53rd birthday party, but stopped and fined at the airport for " inappropriate attire ".
(12) Although children had no strong positive preferences, they may feel negatively about informal attire.
(13) In the last two years, a man dressed as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a two-year-old, a person attired in Super Mario's overalls was accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleashing an antisemitic tirade.
(14) I have said before that I find it a fairly confronting form of attire.
(15) In person, he looks like central casting's idea of a technology guru: vast bulk, informal attire, no socks, beard and dreadlocks.
(16) In the middle of the hotel bar, George Lamb sits tall and flamboyantly attired: grey suit, tanned skin, crisp shirt, plumey hair.
(17) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
(18) The Observer is brilliantly, admirably non-restrictive about employee attire, and I'm lucky to be relatively free to dress myself of a morning.
(19) In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Methodists and Atlantic storms, he might appear at an ordination attired in mitre, ceremonial gloves and gremial (a silk apron-like covering for the lap of bishops).
(20) Zuckerberg's hipster attire is an eloquent statement of his disregard for those on whom his business's continued expansion relies.
Overdress
Definition:
(v. t.) To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much.
Example Sentences:
(1) The temperature For longer rides in winter there are two key rules: the first is to not overdress.
(2) An unusually overdressed Rihanna took home the best international female award.
(3) The sight of sugar-cane cutters in a field near Le Carbet, Martinique, in 1959 – working in the hot sun, appearing, as such workers often do, overdressed for the task in hand – could have been taken on virtually any island yesterday.
(4) Photograph: Instagram In the end, let's not forget the true meaning of Glastonbury – witlessly overdressed people from TV shows you don't watch (eg Millie Mackintosh from Made in Chelsea ) larking around in unnecessarily expensive wellies and treating the whole thing like a jumped-up photo opportunity that was created especially for them.
(5) "It's exhausting that a woman can be too overdressed, too underdressed," she says.
(6) "I would say I'm overdressed but …" And then he shrugged, "It's New York, it's the Tonys, it's Times Square!"
(7) These findings indicate that some infants are inappropriately overdressed for their environmental temperature.