The difference between Bandage and Dress

When used as nouns, bandage means a strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury, whereas dress means 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.

When used as verbs, bandage means to apply a bandage to something, whereas dress means to prepare oneself.


check bellow for the other definitions of Bandage and Dress

  1. Bandage as a noun:

    A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

  2. Bandage as a noun:

    A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.

  1. Bandage as a verb:

    To apply a bandage to something.

  1. Dress as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses."

  2. Dress as a noun (uncountable):

    Apparel, clothing.

    Examples:

    "He came to the party in formal dress."

  3. Dress as a noun:

    The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.

  4. Dress as a noun:

    A dress rehearsal.

  1. Dress as a verb (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive):

    To prepare oneself; to make ready.

  2. Dress as a verb:

    To adorn, ornament.

    Examples:

    "It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again."

  3. Dress as a verb (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.

  4. Dress as a verb (transitive):

    To treat (a wound, or wounded person).

  5. Dress as a verb (transitive):

    To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.

  6. Dress as a verb (transitive):

    To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).

    Examples:

    "He was dressed in the latest fashions."

  7. Dress as a verb (intransitive):

    To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.

    Examples:

    "I rose and dressed before daybreak.  It's very cold out. Dress warm."

  8. Dress as a verb (sports, ambitransitive):

    To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.

    Examples:

    "Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana"

  9. Dress as a verb (intransitive):

    Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers.

    Examples:

    "Does sir dress to the right or the left?"

  10. Dress as a verb:

    To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.

    Examples:

    "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"

  11. Dress as a verb (transitive):

    To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).

  12. Dress as a verb (transitive):

    To bolt or sift flour.

  13. Dress as a verb (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.

    Examples:

    "to dress the ranks"

    "Right, dress!"

  14. Dress as a verb:

    To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

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