What's the difference between dress and tiff?

Dress


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
  • (v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
  • (v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
  • (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
  • (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
  • (v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
  • (v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
  • (v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
  • (v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
  • (n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
  • (n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
  • (n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
  • (n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
  • (3) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (4) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (5) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
  • (6) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
  • (7) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
  • (8) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
  • (9) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
  • (10) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
  • (11) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
  • (13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (14) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (15) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
  • (17) Clare, 17, says her dress was well within guidelines for the event's dress code - it was "fingertip length".
  • (18) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
  • (19) What was very worrying was at half‑time when you go in the dressing room, I could sense there was no response.
  • (20) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.

Tiff


Definition:

  • (n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
  • (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
  • (v. i.) To be in a pet.
  • (v. t.) To deck out; to dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
  • (2) One tabloid describes that moment as "playful", unwittingly anticipating Saatchi's later claim that the photos of him with his hands around his wife's throat merely caught them in the middle of a "playful tiff" .
  • (3) And the Oscar may go to … 40 key movies in contention for 2016 awards Read more Sandwiched between the Venice and Toronto festivals, both of which also screen Oscar-hopeful fare (Venice recently premiered Tom Hooper’s new bid for hardware, The Danish Girl , which next screens at Tiff), Telluride boasts fantastic Oscar odds: six of the last seven best picture winners premiered at the festival – four of them (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, Argo, 12 Years a Slave) were world premieres.
  • (4) A program for achieving density profiles of Tiff images is described.
  • (5) Photograph: Tiff The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch as enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, is set for a Canadian premiere, suggesting it may debut elsewhere beforehand.
  • (6) It is designed to process sequences of sagittal tongue sections that are digitized in real time and stored in standard tagged image file format (TIFF).
  • (7) At one crucial point in the game Murray was incandescently upset with Jamie for standing in his sight line at one end of the court but the tiff subsided when the elder Murray moved as he was told.
  • (8) Photograph: TIFF Ben Mendelsohn schools Jack O'Connell in the art of prison life in David Mackenzie's powerful new drama.
  • (9) Trump had a well-publicized tiff with Fox News after one of the network’s top hosts, Megyn Kelly, challenged him during the first Republican debate.
  • (10) If this is what her husband calls a playful tiff one fears what a serious one might look like.
  • (11) Challenged over the shocking images published in the Sunday People, Saatchi responded that what appeared to be a brutal and humiliating instance of public violence was no more than a "playful tiff".
  • (12) Photograph: Tiff But many premieres are still to be announced – in North America as well as in Italy (Toronto drip-feeds its lineup in three batches).
  • (13) Trump’s victory makes the upset of Brexit look like a quaint tiff over a round of golf.
  • (14) "This is not a 'row'; it is not a 'tiff': it is an incidence of domestic violence," she said.
  • (15) Unfortunately for Tiff, which celebrated its 40th birthday this year, the slate was considered a bit of a letdown.
  • (16) Now the record's finished they say they never even tiff.
  • (17) To complicate things further, during a tiff with his record company Def Jam last year, Nash put out a free download album under his birth name.
  • (18) Yet while most British bands spend years slogging through magazine interviews, starting fake tiffs with other bands for column inches and touring the nation's Barflys in hope of some elusive buzz, Alt-J have somehow managed to find success without fame.
  • (19) Parameters evaluated at baseline and on the last day of treatment included (i) results of respiratory function tests (FEV1, IVC, FVC, TIFF, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25) performed before the stimulation test with nebulized water; (ii) total number of coughs during a 2-hour period after the stimulation test; (iii) bronchial responsiveness, quantified by calculating the volume of nebulized water required to induce a 20% reduction of FEV1 below the basal level.
  • (20) Charlie Kaufman’s breathtaking , Kickstarter-funded stop-motion romance had perhaps the best run of all the films to screen: it won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize during Tiff (it actually world-premiered at Telluride), and was acquired in a surprising move by Paramount Pictures, which intends to give it a qualifying run.