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dresser

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

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dresser (plural dressers)

  2. (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
    • 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie:
      The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
      But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:
      The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
  4. (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress +‎ -er.

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dresser (plural dressers)

  2. One who dresses in a particular way.
    He's a very snappy dresser.
  4. (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
  6. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
    Hypernym: body servant
    • 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
      In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room.
    • 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107:
      The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.
  8. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
    • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section I:
      On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
      Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.
  10. (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
    • 2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan:
      Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.
  12. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
    Synonyms: bolt, bolter
  14. A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
    Coordinate terms: breaker, crusher
    ore dresser
  16. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
  18. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
  20. One who dresses or prepares stone.
    Coordinate terms: mason, stonemason
    • 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7:
      At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French drecer, drecier, from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiāre (through a contracted form *drectio), from Latin dīrectus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct. Compare Catalan dreçar, Italian drizzare, Sicilian addizzari, Spanish aderezar, Norman dréchi, Friulian dreçâ.

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Verb

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dresser

  1. (transitive) to raise, to erect, to build
  2. (transitive) to raise, to lift, to elevate
  3. (transitive) to prepare; to draw up
    • 1789 October 21, Commune de Paris, “Loi martiale contre les attroupements”, in Sigismond Lacroix, editor, Actes de la Commune de Paris pendant la Révolution‎[1], volume 2, published 1895, page 386:
      Il sera dressé, par les officiers municipaux, procès-verbal, qui contiendra le récit des faits.
      There shall be prepared, by the municipal officers, a procès-verbal which shall contain an account of facts.
  4. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
  5. (transitive) to set, to lay out
    Est-ce qu’il a dressé la table? ― Has he laid the table?
  7. (transitive) to tame (lion etc), to break in (horse), to train (an animal)
  8. (reflexive) to stand

Conjugation

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Conjugation of dresser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple dresser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple dressant
/dʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /dʁe.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle dressé
/dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present dresse
/dʁɛs/ 		dresses
/dʁɛs/ 		dresse
/dʁɛs/ 		dressons
/dʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sɔ̃/ 		dressez
/dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ 		dressent
/dʁɛs/
imperfect dressais
/dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ 		dressais
/dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ 		dressait
/dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ 		dressions
/dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sjɔ̃/ 		dressiez
/dʁɛ.sje/ or /dʁe.sje/ 		dressaient
/dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/
past historic2 dressai
/dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ 		dressas
/dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ 		dressa
/dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ 		dressâmes
/dʁɛ.sam/ or /dʁe.sam/ 		dressâtes
/dʁɛ.sat/ or /dʁe.sat/ 		dressèrent
/dʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /dʁe.sɛʁ/
future dresserai
/dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /dʁe.sʁe/ 		dresseras
/dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /dʁe.sʁa/ 		dressera
/dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /dʁe.sʁa/ 		dresserons
/dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sʁɔ̃/ 		dresserez
/dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /dʁe.sʁe/ 		dresseront
/dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sʁɔ̃/
conditional dresserais
/dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		dresserais
/dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		dresserait
/dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		dresserions
/dʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		dresseriez
/dʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /dʁe.sə.ʁje/ 		dresseraient
/dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present dresse
/dʁɛs/ 		dresses
/dʁɛs/ 		dresse
/dʁɛs/ 		dressions
/dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sjɔ̃/ 		dressiez
/dʁɛ.sje/ or /dʁe.sje/ 		dressent
/dʁɛs/
imperfect2 dressasse
/dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/ 		dressasses
/dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/ 		dressât
/dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ 		dressassions
/dʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		dressassiez
/dʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /dʁe.sa.sje/ 		dressassent
/dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — dresse
/dʁɛs/ 		— dressons
/dʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sɔ̃/ 		dressez
/dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of se dresser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple se dresser
compound s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple se dressant
/sə dʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /sə dʁe.sɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
past participle dressé
/dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present me dresse
/mə dʁɛs/ 		te dresses
/tə dʁɛs/ 		se dresse
/sə dʁɛs/ 		nous dressons
/nu dʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sɔ̃/ 		vous dressez
/vu dʁɛ.se/ or /vu dʁe.se/ 		se dressent
/sə dʁɛs/
imperfect me dressais
/mə dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /mə dʁe.sɛ/ 		te dressais
/tə dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /tə dʁe.sɛ/ 		se dressait
/sə dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /sə dʁe.sɛ/ 		nous dressions
/nu dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sjɔ̃/ 		vous dressiez
/vu dʁɛ.sje/ or /vu dʁe.sje/ 		se dressaient
/sə dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /sə dʁe.sɛ/
past historic2 me dressai
/mə dʁɛ.se/ or /mə dʁe.se/ 		te dressas
/tə dʁɛ.sa/ or /tə dʁe.sa/ 		se dressa
/sə dʁɛ.sa/ or /sə dʁe.sa/ 		nous dressâmes
/nu dʁɛ.sam/ or /nu dʁe.sam/ 		vous dressâtes
/vu dʁɛ.sat/ or /vu dʁe.sat/ 		se dressèrent
/sə dʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /sə dʁe.sɛʁ/
future me dresserai
/mə dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /mə dʁe.sʁe/ 		te dresseras
/tə dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /tə dʁe.sʁa/ 		se dressera
/sə dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /sə dʁe.sʁa/ 		nous dresserons
/nu dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sʁɔ̃/ 		vous dresserez
/vu dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /vu dʁe.sʁe/ 		se dresseront
/sə dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /sə dʁe.sʁɔ̃/
conditional me dresserais
/mə dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /mə dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		te dresserais
/tə dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /tə dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		se dresserait
/sə dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /sə dʁe.sʁɛ/ 		nous dresserions
/nu dʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		vous dresseriez
/vu dʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /vu dʁe.sə.ʁje/ 		se dresseraient
/sə dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /sə dʁe.sʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of s'être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of s'être + past participle
future perfect future of s'être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present me dresse
/mə dʁɛs/ 		te dresses
/tə dʁɛs/ 		se dresse
/sə dʁɛs/ 		nous dressions
/nu dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sjɔ̃/ 		vous dressiez
/vu dʁɛ.sje/ or /vu dʁe.sje/ 		se dressent
/sə dʁɛs/
imperfect2 me dressasse
/mə dʁɛ.sas/ or /mə dʁe.sas/ 		te dressasses
/tə dʁɛ.sas/ or /tə dʁe.sas/ 		se dressât
/sə dʁɛ.sa/ or /sə dʁe.sa/ 		nous dressassions
/nu dʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /nu dʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		vous dressassiez
/vu dʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /vu dʁe.sa.sje/ 		se dressassent
/sə dʁɛ.sas/ or /sə dʁe.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — dresse-toi
/dʁɛs.twa/ 		— dressons-nous
/dʁɛ.sɔ̃.nu/ or /dʁe.sɔ̃.nu/ 		dressez-vous
/dʁɛ.se.vu/ or /dʁe.se.vu/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of s'être + past participle — simple imperative of s'être + past participle simple imperative of s'être + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From dress +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dresser

  1. (Late Middle English, rare) leader, guide

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  • English: dresser

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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dresser m

  1. indefinite plural of dress

Verb

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dresser

  1. present of dresse

Old French

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Verb

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dresser

  1. Alternative form of drecier

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of dresser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive dresser avoir dressé
gerund en dressant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle dressant
past participle dressé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present dres dresses dresse dressons dressez dressent
imperfect dressoie, dresseie, dressoe, dresseve dressoies, dresseies, dressoes, dresseves dressoit, dresseit, dressot, dresseve dressiiens, dressiens dressiiez, dressiez dressoient, dresseient, dressoent, dressevent
preterite dressai dressas dressa dressames dressastes dresserent
future dresserai dresseras dressera dresserons dresseroiz, dressereiz, dresserez dresseront
conditional dresseroie, dressereie dresseroies, dressereies dresseroit, dressereit dresseriiens, dresseriens dresseriiez, dresseriez dresseroient, dressereient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present dres dres drest dressons dressez dressent
imperfect dressasse dressasses dressast dressissons, dressissiens dressissoiz, dressissez, dressissiez dressassent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— dresse — dressons dressez —
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