Usually means: Clothing or sauce for food.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word dressing:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dressing: Merriam-Webster
  2. dressing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dressing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dressing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dressing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dressing, dressing: Wordnik
  7. dressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dressing: Wiktionary
  9. dressing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dressing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dressing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dressing: Dictionary.com
  13. dressing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dressing (knot), Dressing (medical), Dressing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dressing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dressing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dressing: Rhymezone
  18. Dressing (nt), dressing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dressing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dressing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dressing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. dressing: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dressing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRESSING: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dressing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dressing: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. dressing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dressing: Castle Terms
  3. dressing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dressing: Glossary of Whisky terms
  4. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See dress as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
noun:  (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
noun:  Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
noun:  The activity of getting dressed.
noun:  (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
noun:  The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
noun:  Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
noun:  An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
noun:  (dated) Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
noun:  (dated) The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
noun:  (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.

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