What's the difference between dress and undress?

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.

Undress


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divest of clothes; to strip.
  • (v. t.) To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • (v. t.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.
  • (n.) A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
  • (n.) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brief encounters: Undressed at the V&A Read more But photography’s not the only no-no in this lineup of lingerie.
  • (2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
  • (3) Her appeal awarded her nine points, for standard daily living, including two points for an aid for using the toilet and two for an aid dressing and undressing.
  • (4) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nauru briefing: the casual brutality of Australia’s offshore detention regime They show children left in states of extreme vulnerability and danger : a father, citing lack of proper medical care and his feeling he is “failing as their father and it’s torturing me”, threatens to kill himself and his children on three separate occasions before there is intervention; a girl becomes the subject of more than 60 incident reports that reveal she has been sexually abused and has self-harmed; another girl, aged under 10, also the victim of sexual abuse, undresses in front of a group of adults and invites them to stick their fingers into her vagina.
  • (6) Wounds must not remain undressed for prolonged periods to avoid drying up and cooling.
  • (7) They continue, and will continue to suffer throughout their lives as a result of your actions.” Wright told them how one victim now undressed only in the dark; how another hated her own body, and that others had eating disorders, depression and were unable to form stable adult relationships.
  • (8) Dispersal of skin micro-organisms into the air during undressing was studied in 72 members of surgical and nursing staff.
  • (9) Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.
  • (10) The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing due to vital hypothermia is described and the significant influence of alcohol on hypothermia and confusion in connection with hypothermia is pointed out.
  • (11) "They are asking him to leave the flat fully undressed or in his underwear.
  • (12) Many showed detainees in states of undress having their bodies inspected, with rulers and coins held up for comparison and placement of injuries.
  • (13) Five couples from Voina undressed and had vigorous sex in the hall.
  • (14) State of undress The West End, though, does appear to have caught an Olympic cold, with the world's gaze shifted to east London.
  • (15) Pavlensky, who has a long history of self-mutilating protests in Russia , gained international attention in November 2013 when he undressed and nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square as “a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of modern Russian society”.
  • (16) I'm not a gay, and I don't know what the ref is into, but I do know I don't like to be mentally undressed every time the whistle is blown.
  • (17) After completing several measures of sexual experience and attitude, subjects received a written description of one of the following conditions and were asked if they wished to volunteer: sexual film, sexual film and subjective rating of arousal, sexual film and assessment through forehead temperature, sexual film and assessment with a device that was placed over the clothes and measured genital heat flow, sexual film and assessment with the heat flow device while partially undressed, or sexual film and assessment with the vaginal photoplethysmograph or penile strain gauge while partially undressed.
  • (18) There were low positive correlations between dressing, undressing, and ambulation scores and ROM scores on admission.
  • (19) You get undressed and notice you are missing some or all of your breasts.
  • (20) They would undress me completely and force me to clean around the toilet with my tongue.