dressing

A sauce added to salad or other food to give it more flavour.

• This salad needs some dressing.
• She made a dressing with oil and lemon.
• Would you like the dressing on the side?

Similar words: sauce

Common phrases: salad dressing, dressing on something

The activity of putting clothes on yourself or another person.

• Dressing takes him ten minutes.
• She needs help with washing and dressing.
• The morning routine includes breakfast and dressing.

Common phrases: washing and dressing, help with dressing

A piece of material placed over an injury to protect it and help it heal.

• The nurse changed my dressing.
• Keep the dressing clean and dry.
• They put fresh dressings on his wounds.

Similar words: bandage

Common phrases: change a dressing, sterile dressing

A mixture made mainly from bread, cooked inside or alongside a turkey or other bird.

• We served turkey with dressing.
• She added herbs to the bread dressing.
• The dressing baked in a separate dish.

Similar words: stuffing

Common phrases: turkey dressing, cornbread dressing

Material spread over soil to help plants grow or improve the ground.

• The lawn needs a dressing of fertilizer.
• Apply a light dressing in spring.
• A dressing of compost improved the soil.

How to use it: a dressing of something (The beds received a dressing of compost.)

Similar words: soil treatment

Common phrases: dressing of compost, apply a dressing

A substance applied to cloth to make it firmer or improve its surface.

• The cloth received a starch dressing.
• This dressing gives the linen a firm finish.
• Washing removed the dressing from the fabric.

Similar words: sizing

Common phrases: fabric dressing, starch dressing