dresser
名词 n.
英 /ˈdɹɛsə/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
— The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
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One who dresses in a particular way.
— He's a very snappy dresser.
- An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
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A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
— The leading lady also went out of her way to congratulate the young neophyte effusively on her triumph—and then slapped her unfortunate dresser on very insufficient provocation; […]
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A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
— 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.
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A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
— 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.
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A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
— 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.
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
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A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
— ore dresser
- A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
- A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
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One who dresses or prepares stone.
— At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
词源 2
From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.
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