Dressing commonly refers to: * Dressing (knot), the process of arranging a knot *

Dressing (medical) A dressing is a sterile pad or compress 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 most often used to hol ...

, 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 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 sheets of materials ...

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 dressings ...

, 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 vegetabl ...

, 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 pre ...

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

Ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitr ...

, 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 m