DRESSINGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɛsɪŋ

語源 1

From 中期英語 dressing, dressinge, dressynge, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

名詞

dressing (countable and uncountable, plural dressings)

1. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.

2. (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
   • 2021 July 21, Gabrielle Hamilton, “A Salad So Good You Can Eat It for Breakfast”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     I was even more excited to tailor it with a choice of dressings — blue cheese, ranch, French, Russian, Italian, creamy Italian.

3. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
4. The activity of getting dressed.
   • 2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations, page 182:

     Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.

5. (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
   • 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Women ought to repair the losses , time and years have made in their features, with dressings

6. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.

   Synonym: forcemeat

7. Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
8. An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
9. (dated) Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:

     "I once saw what a dressing he gave a silly chattering fool, that answered his challenge some time before."

10. (dated) The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
11. (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Dressing

語源 2

From 中期英語 dressynge, dressande, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

動詞

dressing

1. present participle and gerund of dress