Dressing commonly refers to: *

Dressing (knot) This page explains commonly used terms related to knots. B Bend A bend is a knot used to join two lengths of rope. Bight A bight has two meanings in knotting. It can mean either any central part of a rope (between the standing end an ...

, the process of arranging a knot * Dressing (medical), a medical covering for a wound, usually made of cloth * Dressing, putting on

clothing Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural ...

Dressing may also refer to:

Food

Salad dressing A salad dressing is a sauce for salads. Used on virtually all '' leafy salads'', dressings may also be used in making salads of beans (such as three bean salad), noodle or pasta salads and antipasti, and forms of potato salad. Salad dressing ...

, a type of sauce which is generally poured on a salad, or spread on the bread of a sandwich *

Stuffing Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible mixture, often composed of herbs and a starch such as bread, used to fill a cavity in the preparation of another food item. Many foods may be stuffed, including poultry, seafood, and vegetables. A ...

, also called dressing, a mixture of various ingredients used to fill a cavity in another food item

Other uses

* Dressing, the application of a profile onto a

grinding wheel Grinding wheels contains abrasive compounds for grinding and abrasive machining operations. Such wheels are also used in grinding machines. The wheels are generally made with composite material . This consists of coarse-particle aggregate pres ...

* Dressing, a covering or enhanced construction method to improve an object's appearance: ** Ashlar, stone dressing(s) **

Brickwork Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called ''courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by si ...

dressings, using counter-coloured or complementary coloured bricks ** Stucco (also known as render or rendering): ***

Binder (material) A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion. In a more narrow sense, binders are liquid or dough-like substances th ...

and water applied in decorative fashion; it can also refer to interior *** aggregates, ***

Plasterwork Plasterwork is construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. This is also sometimes called pargeting. The process of ...

in relief **

Well dressing Well dressing, also known as well flowering, is a tradition practised in some parts of rural England in which wells, springs and other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals. The custom is most closely associated with ...

(decoration), a tradition practised in some parts of rural England * Dressing, the preparation of a game animal for consumption or sale—see

butcher A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishm ...

Dressed weight Dressed weight (also known as dead weight or carcass weight) refers to the weight of an animal after being partially butchered, removing all the internal organs and oftentimes the head as well as inedible (or less desirable) portions of the tail a ...

, refers to the weight of an animal after being partially butchered *

Dressed particle In theoretical physics, the term dressed particle refers to a bare particle together with some excitations of other quantum fields that are physically inseparable from the bare particle. For example, a dressed electron includes the cloud of virtua ...

, a bare particle together with some excitations of other quantum fields *

Ore dressing In the field of extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, also known as ore dressing, is the process of separating commercially valuable minerals from their ores. History Before the advent of heavy machinery the raw ore was broken up using ...

, mineral processing * Ship dressing or

dressing overall Dressing overall consists of stringing international maritime signal flags on a ship from stemhead to masthead, from masthead to masthead (if the vessel has more than one mast) and then down to the taffrail. It is a sign of celebration, and is ...

, stringing international maritime signal flags on a ship at special occasions * "

The Dressing The second season of the animated television series, ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. Season two started on May 25, 2003, with "Super Birthday Snake" a ...

", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''

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