Dress
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A dress is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice or with a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment.

Dress may also refer to:
  • Clothing
    Clothing
    Clothing refers to any covering for the human body that is worn. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of nearly all human societies...

     in general
  • Costume
    Costume
    The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances...

    , fancy dress
  • Standard diving dress
    Standard diving dress
    A standard diving dress consists of a metallic diving helmet, an airline or hose from a surface supplied diving air pump, a canvas diving suit, diving knife and boots...

    , the old heavy canvas diving suit with a large metal helmet
  • DRESS syndrome
    DRESS syndrome
    DRESS syndrome stands for Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms. The term was coined in a 1996 report in an attempt to simplify terminology for a syndrome recognized as early as 1959...

    , Drug Rash (or Reaction) with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms, also known as Drug Hypersensitivity Syndrome


Dress may also be used as a verb to mean:
  • to put clothes on
  • to prepare the surface of a material (usually stone
    Ashlar
    Ashlar is prepared stone work of any type of stone. Masonry using such stones laid in parallel courses is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. Ashlar blocks are rectangular cuboid blocks that are masonry sculpted to have square edges...

     or lumber)
  • to stuff poultry or another food item (see stuffing
    Stuffing
    In cooking, stuffing or filling is an edible substance or mixture, often a starch, used to fill a cavity in another food item...

    )
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