Dressed up to the nines

Definition

dress /dres/ n ၁။ [C] အထက္ေအာက္ တစ္ဆက္တည္း ျဖစ္ေသာ အမ်ဳိးသမီးဝတ္စံု။ ဂါဝန္။ a long/short dress ❍ a pink chiffon dress ❍ a wedding dress. ၂။ [U] အဝတ္အစား။ wear casual/formal dress ❍ traditional Scottish dress ❍ He's got no dress sense (ie idea of how to dress well). See also EVENING DRESS, FANCY DRESS, MORNING DRESS v ၁။ (က) အဝတ္ဝတ္သည္။ အဝတ္လဲသည္။ He takes ages to dress. ❍ Is she old enough to dress herself yet? (ခ) (ဆိုင္ရာဆိုင္ရာ ေလ်ာက္ပတ္ေသာ) အဝတ္ဝတ္ဆင္သည္။ Do they expect us to dress for dinner? (ဂ) ~ (sb) in/ as/ for sth (တစ္မ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးကို) ဝတ္သည္။ …လိုဝတ္ဆင္သည္။ She often dresses in black. ❍ He was dressed as a woman (ie wearing women's clothes). ❍ We were dressed for cold weather. (ဃ) ဝတ္စားဆင္ယင္သည္။ ဆင္ျမန္းသည္။ dress well/badly/fashionably ❍ The princess is dressed by a talented young designer. ၂။ အလွဆင္သည္။ ျပင္ဆင္ သည္။ ခင္းက်င္းသည္။ dress a shop window (ie arrange a display of goods in it) ❍ dress a street with flags ❍ dress a Christmas tree with lights. ၃။ အနာေဆးထည့္ ပတ္တီးစည္းသည္။ ၄။ စားစရာေပၚတြင္ အဆာပလာျဖဴးသည္။ ဆမ္းသည္။ သားငါးကိုင္သည္။ dress a chicken (ie clean it ready for cooking) ❍ dress a salad (ie add a DRESSING(၃) to it before serving). ❏ dress circle ( Brit ) ( US first balcony ) n (႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ံု၊ ဇာတ္ပြဲ စသည္တြင္) ပထမထပ္ ပြဲၾကည့္ေဆာင္။ ❏ dress sb down [ PHRV ] ျပစ္တင္ႀကိမ္းေမာင္းသည္။ ❏ dressed adj ဝတ္[ေသာ]။ Aren't you dressed yet? ❍ Alison, now fully dressed, went into the hall. ❍ He was smartly/impeccably dressed, as usual. ❏ dressed to kill [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ဖက္သား ေငးေအာင္၊ က်ေအာင္ ဝတ္စားထားသည္။ ❏ dressed up to the nines [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) စမတ္ က်က်၊ ႐ိႈးက်က် ဝတ္ဆင္ထားသည္။ ❏ dress rehearsal n ဝတ္စံုျပည့္ေလ့က်င့္ျခင္း။ ( fig ) The earlier revolts had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution. ❏ dress up [ PHRV ] ဝတ္ေကာင္းစားလွ ဝတ္ဆင္သည္။ အလွဆင္သည္။ Don't bother to dress up—come as you are. ❏ dress (sb) up (in sth/as sb/sth) [ PHRV ] (… ကဲ့သို႔) ဝတ္ဆင္သည္။ ထူးထူးဆန္းဆန္း ဝတ္ဆင္သည္။ dress (up) as a fairy/bandit/pirate ❍ dressing-up clothes ❍ Children love dressing up. ❍ They were dressed up in Edwardian costume. ❏ dress sth up [ PHRV ] လုပ္ႀကံဖန္တီးသည္။ rumours dressed up as hard news ❍ The facts are quite clear; it's no use trying to dress them up. ❏ get dressed [ IDM ] အဝတ္ဝတ္သည္။ အဝတ္လဲသည္။ She got dressed and went downstairs.

Examples

1. It only took her ten minutes to shower and dress.
2. [dress in] : He tends to dress in dark colours.
3. [dress as] : The nurses had decided to dress as clowns for Halloween.
4. We wash the children and dress them for school.
5. [dress yourself] : Our youngest boy can already dress himself.
6. He dresses many of Europe’s most glamorous women.
7. [dress for] : It would be sensible to dress for cold weather.
8. They dressed for dinner every night (=put on formal clothes for the evening meal).