redress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/    美 /ɹiˈdɹɛs/|/ɹəˈdɹɛs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation. countable,uncountable
    — Iohn. [of Lancaster] […] Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, / That all their eyes may beare thoſe Tokens home, / Of our reſtored Loue and Amitie. / Biſh. [Archbishop of York] I take your Princely word, for theſe redreſſes.
  2. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
    — The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film.
  3. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation. countable,uncountable
    — Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
  4. A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court countable,uncountable
  5. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
    — Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]
  2. To dress again.
    — The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.
  3. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
    — And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe.
  4. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
    — Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.
  5. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
    — Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […]
  6. To put upright again; to restore. obsolete,transitive
    — Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes

词形变化

redresses present,singular,third-person redressing participle,present redressed participle,past redressed past redresses plural redresses present,singular,third-person redressing participle,present redressed participle,past redressed past re-dress alternative redresses plural re-dress alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
redressability redressable redressal redresser redressible redressive redressless redressor self-redress unredressable unredressed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”)).
Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English dress
English redress
From re- + dress.
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