What's the difference between gown and robe?

Gown


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose, flowing upper garment
  • (n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
  • (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
  • (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  • (n.) Any sort of dress or garb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
  • (2) This training program served to further emphasize the importance of using proper aseptic gowning technique.
  • (3) Experimental subjects desired fewer changes in exam procedures than control subjects, indicating that the gown provided them with an overall more comfortable experience.
  • (4) There were 102 infants in the gowning group and 100 infants in the nongowning group.
  • (5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
  • (6) Of 110 blood contacts among surgeons, 81 (74%) were potentially preventable by additional barrier precautions, such as face shields and fluid-resistant gowns.
  • (7) The first lady resented the governor’s prohibition on using his donor lists to market her nutritional supplements, he testified, and she reacted with anger when an adviser told her that she should not accept Williams’ offer to buy her an Oscar de la Renta gown to wear to the governor’s inauguration.
  • (8) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
  • (9) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
  • (10) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
  • (11) He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother,” Johnson said in a Facebook post that showed Robinson smiling in a bright red graduation cap and gown.
  • (12) Isolation gowns have traditionally been used in health care situations to protect against microbial contamination.
  • (13) I got a Chewbacca, a Leia-in-the-white-gown and an orange-suited Luke Skywalker.
  • (14) Who cares who spent what on a pasta bake and whether or not you're allowed to claim for a dressing gown?
  • (15) Two thirds of the increase (64%) was due to rubber gloves and an additional 25% was due to disposable isolation gowns.
  • (16) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (17) It is quite satisfactory for preventing operators from soiling their feet and their gowns.
  • (18) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
  • (19) Eight NICU required routine gowning on entry, two restricted sibling visiting and four restricted visiting by relatives and friends.
  • (20) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.

Robe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
  • (v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
  • (v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many turned up in their bright robes and burqas, and some incredibly emotional scenes ensued.
  • (2) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (3) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
  • (4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
  • (5) 5.13am BST Pacquiao enters He's heading in, wearing a white robe with blue trim, and looking like he does...relaxed.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters in KKK robes disrupt confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions Sessions defended his brand of law-and-order conservatism, pledging to reverse a recent spike in violent crime in some US cities and to tackle a heroin addiction epidemic that has afflicted several regions.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence’s white silk robes, which were presented to him after the capture of Aqaba.
  • (8) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Bathrobe One of these characters is in the bath, the other is wearing some kind of robe.
  • (9) A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing Hpa-An was sleepy but charming and lay on the Thanlyin river, my route to Mawlamyine.
  • (10) "Chisora climbed down from the top table," he said, "removed his robe and then walked towards me, entourage in tow, in an aggressive manner.
  • (11) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
  • (12) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
  • (13) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
  • (14) As kick-off at the Al-Ahli stadium approaches, a rust-coloured moon rises in the sky and a few rich Qataris in immaculate robes settle into their air-conditioned executive boxes.
  • (15) Then he reached deep into his robes, beamed a huge smile and offered me a sweet.
  • (16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
  • (17) A website for the group includes an image of Ancona in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross.
  • (18) López, who wears a bulletproof vest under his robes at mass, said that compared to the cartel and the government, the vigilantes stood out as a "lesser evil", which was also gathering support among wealthy locals who were secretly channelling funds their way.
  • (19) So the eyes and ears of the eurozone will be on the eight red-robed judges of Germany's highest court this week when they deliver a long-awaited verdict over whether a financial rescue fund considered crucial to the future of the euro gets the green light.
  • (20) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.