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dress out

/dres/US // drɛs //UK // (drɛs) //

穿出,出场,穿出的衣服,穿着

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
    • : clothing; apparel; garb: The dress of the 18th century was colorful.
    • : formal attire.
    • : a particular form of appearance; guise.
    • : outer covering, as the plumage of birds.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : of or for a dress or dresses.
    • : of or for a formal occasion.
    • : requiring formal dress.
v.有主动词 verb
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    dressed or drest, dress·ing.

    • : to put clothing upon.
    • : to put formal or evening clothes on.
    • : to trim; ornament; adorn: to dress a store window; to dress a Christmas tree.
    • : to design clothing for or sell clothes to.
    • : to comb out and do up.
    • : to cut up, trim, and remove the skin, feathers, viscera, etc., from for market or for cooking: We dressed three chickens for the dinner. He dressed out the deer when he got back to camp.
    • : to prepare by special processes.
    • : to apply medication or a dressing to.
    • : to make straight; bring into line: to dress ranks.
    • : to make smooth.
    • : to cultivate.
    • : Theater. to arrange by effective placement of properties, scenery, actors, etc.
    • : to ornament with ensigns, house flags, code flags, etc.: The bark was dressed with masthead flags only.
    • : Angling. to prepare or bait for use.to prepare for use.
    • : Printing. to fit around and between pages in a chase prior to locking it up.
    • : to supply with accessories, optional features, etc.: to have one's new car fully dressed.
v.无主动词 verb
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    dressed or, drest, dress·ing.

    • : to clothe or attire oneself; put on one's clothes: Wake up and dress, now!
    • : to put on or wear formal or fancy clothes: to dress for dinner.
    • : to come into line, as troops.
    • : to align oneself with the next soldier, marcher, dancer, etc., in line.
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    • : dress down, to reprimand; scold.to thrash; beat.to dress informally or less formally: to dress down for the shipboard luau.
    • : dress up, to put on one's best or fanciest clothing; dress relatively formally: They were dressed up for the Easter parade.to dress in costume or in another person's clothes: to dress up in Victorian clothing; to dress up as Marie Antoinette.to embellish or disguise, especially in order to make more appealing or acceptable: to dress up the facts with colorful details.

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Examples

  • A dress would then show up at a customer’s home, she’d wear it for whatever occasion had brought her to the site to begin with, and then she’d ship the dress back when she was done with it.

  • The Swedish dress up like Swedish milkmaids and make a lot of noise.

  • As if to underscore that the company does not plan to bend to convention even once public, Karp introduced Wednesday’s presentation dressed in cross country-training gear in a pre-recorded video.

  • In the end, the battalion rides to the emperor’s defense with Mulan openly in the lead, dressed as a woman.

  • Being mistaken for the parking valet no matter how well one is dressed, or being wantonly stopped by the police are all too regular events for many.

  • And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.

  • Even for Arabic dance no one wears a long dress, just a scarf around the hips.

  • Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.

  • “The dress is just fishnet and crystals and a couple fingers crossed,” Selman told Style.com of the dress.

  • The exhibit also includes examples of designers borrowing from fine art, as Yves Saint Laurent did with his Mondrian dress.

  • And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.

  • That poor, pretty creature, starving, in her charming pink dress and hat of roses.

  • Every time he is dressed, or sees his mother dress, he has an object-lesson in symmetrical arrangement.

  • She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.

  • If she is so distingue in rather less than ordinary dress, what would she be in a Parisian costume?