What's the difference between dressed and starkers?

Dressed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dress

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.

Starkers


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A unilateral UK move would create even starker problems of domestic and international presentation, particularly if such action were to contrast with continued congressional reluctance to fund modernisation.” It observed that the military chiefs of staff believed the only effective and credible deterrent to Soviet use of chemical weapons was “the ability to retaliate in kind”.
  • (2) but it is hard to imagine that they will unite the nation in the way they did in the past, for they have been bought at the cost of making Brazil's injustices starker than ever.
  • (3) But the disconnect between the report’s recommendations and reality was only made starker as senior government figures refused to guarantee the rights of the 3 million EU citizens in the UK, further fuelling fears that have arisen since 23 June.
  • (4) As Brown and Simpson point out, Scoop still has much to offer to journalists and general readers, but a word of warning – it is littered with racist terms which will offend modern sensibilities (though that racism is far starker in Waugh in Abyssinia than in Scoop).
  • (5) One of the MPs' main conclusions was that inequalities long evident across companies in the UK were even starker in the financial sector.
  • (6) America finds itself today in a period of extreme political polarisation, in which the differences between the two parties have perhaps rarely – if ever – been starker.
  • (7) It is hard to think of a starker failure in domestic government since the poll tax.
  • (8) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (9) The slowdown in labor productivity has been even starker.
  • (10) Against a backdrop of record youth unemployment and graduate debt, the moral case is even starker.
  • (11) These statistics are even starker for minority teens, who comprise about 70% of the students at schools with SBHCs at them.
  • (12) His language is much starker than the tone adopted by the prime minister, who aims to revive his premiership this autumn by explaining how he will help struggling families through the downturn.
  • (13) The contrast between the ugly pigeons and the pretty swallow could hardly be starker or more telling.
  • (14) The pre-crisis slowdown is likely to have been even starker if we looked only at working-age households."
  • (15) And if race is added to class, the gap is starker still.
  • (16) In March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the volume on adaptation of its fifth assessment report , confirming in starker terms forecasts first outlined by scientists in 1990.
  • (17) Focusing more specifically on the benefit system, the contrast becomes even starker.
  • (18) The difference with the general population is even starker when it comes to specific health issues.
  • (19) No, the starker conclusion is that it is not so much a particular generation as a particular stratum of society that will be hardest hit: the children of the middle classes – those whose parents are too well off to qualify for state help, but whose means are not sufficient to guarantee a comfortable life.
  • (20) The contrast between the deep cuts to public services in the name of austerity and the increase in the MoD’s budget in the name of security could not be starker.

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