What is the difference between dress and train?
dress | train |
(countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
A dress rehearsal.
(obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
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*:but syr Gawayns spere brak / but sir marhaus spere helde / And therwith syre Gawayne and his hors russhed doune to the erthe / And lyghtly syre Gawayne rose on his feet / and pulled out his swerd / and dressyd hym toward syr Marhaus on foote
To adorn, ornament.
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*Tennyson
*:dressing their hair with the white sea flower
*Carlyle
*:If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.
(nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
*:Daily she dressed him, and did the best / His grievous hurt to guarish, that she might.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
*:he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
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To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
:to dress''' leather or cloth; to '''dress''' a garden; to '''dress''' grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to '''dress ores, by sorting and separating them
* Bible, Exodus xxx. 7
*Dryden
*:three hundred horsessmoothly dressed
To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
(military, ambitransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
:to dress the ranks
:Right, dress !
To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
Elongated portion.
# The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
#* 1817 , (Jane Austen), Northanger Abbey :
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#* 2011 , Imogen Fox, The Guardian , 20 Apr 2011:
# A trail or line (of) something, especially gunpowder.
#* 1873 , (Charlotte Mary Yonge), Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones :
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Connected sequence of people or things.
# A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.
#* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
#* 2009 , (Anne Easter Smith), The King's Grace :
# A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
# A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure (of) something.
#* 1872 , (Charles Darwin), The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals :
#* 2012 , Rory Carroll, The Guardian , 18 Jun 2012:
# (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
# A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
# A series of electrical pulses.
# A series (of) specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.
# A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.
#* 2009 , (Hanif Kureishi), The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, title= # A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
# (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a woman or bottom, especially as a form of gang rape.
#* 1988 , X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29 ,
#* 2005 , Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001 ,
#* 2010 , Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood ,
To practice an ability.
To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
* Dryden
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To improve one's fitness.
To proceed in sequence.
To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
(horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
* Jeffrey
(mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
(video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
* 2000 , "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.cbm )
(obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
* Milton
(obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Ford
(obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
(obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
(obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
(obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
As nouns the difference between dress and train
is that dress is (countable) an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist while train is elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit.As verbs the difference between dress and train
is that dress is (obsolete|reflexive|intransitive) to prepare oneself; to make ready while train is to practice an ability.dress
English
Noun
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
Derived terms
* dress code * dress rehearsal * dress shirt * nightdress * wedding dressVerb
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.
- When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense.
Synonyms
* clothe * (clothe oneself) get dressed * (prepare the surface of) * bandage, put a bandage on, put a dressing onAntonyms
* strip, undress * (clothe oneself) disrobe, get undressed, strip, undressDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Statistics
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* * * 1000 English basic words ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
(nb-noun-m1) (clothing) a suit (either formal wear, or leisure or sports wear )References
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English
(wikipedia train)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.Noun
(en noun)- They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].
- Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train .
- A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
- Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night
- Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king's train , but she was beginning to understand Henry's motive for including the pretender's wife.
- A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
- "Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.
- This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train , for the adventure.
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- Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."
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- “You want us to run a train on you?”
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- We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains , or gangbang, the insatiables.
Derived terms
* ammunition train * baggage train * freight train * goods train * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * mail train * pack train * railroad train * railway train * road train * steam train * supply train * trainiac * trainmaster * train track * vactrain * wagon trainDescendants
* Irish: (l) * Welsh:Verb
(en verb)- The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train .
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- He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
- I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.
- In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery.
- If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.
- O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
- This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
Derived terms
* trainer * training * weight-train * weight trainingEtymology 2
From (etyl) traine, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].