Dressing commonly refers to the activity of putting on

clothing Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on a human human body, body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin s ...

. Dressing may also refer to:

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Dressing (medical) A dressing or compress is a piece of material such as a pad applied to a wound to promote healing and protect the wound from further harm. A dressing is designed to be in direct contact with the wound, as distinguished from a bandage, which is mo ...

, a medical covering for a wound, usually made of cloth *

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 is a slack part in the middle of a rope, usually a curve or loop. "Any slack part of a rope between the t ...

, the process of arranging a knot * Dressing, the application of a profile onto a

grinding wheel Grinding wheels are wheels that contain 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-parti ...

* Dressing, a covering or enhanced construction method to improve an object's appearance: **

Ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

, 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 ...

dressings, using counter-coloured or complementary coloured bricks **

Stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...

(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. More narrowly, binders are liquid or dough-like substances that harde ...

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 Molding (decorative), decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. This is also sometimes called parge ...

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 materials such as flower petals. The custom is most close ...

(decoration), a tradition practised in some parts of rural England * Dressing, the preparation of an animal for consumption or sale, field dressing e.g. **

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 often the head as well as inedible (or less desirable) portions of the tail and le ...

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

Ore dressing Mineral processing is the process of separating commercially valuable minerals from their ores in the field of extractive metallurgy. Depending on the processes used in each instance, it is often referred to as ore dressing or ore milling. ...

, mineral processing

Food

Salad dressing A salad dressing is a sauce for salads, used on virtually all leafy salads. Dressings may also be used in preparing salads of beans (e.g., three bean salad), noodle or pasta salads and antipasti, and forms of potato salad. A dressing may even ...

, 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#Food, 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 v ...

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

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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 virt ...

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

dressing overall Dressing overall consists of stringing international maritime signal flags International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of ...

, 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" ...

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

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