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Definition: TO DRESS UP |
TO DRESS UP1. To dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. ``You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius C[ae]sar.'' --Addison. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We won't have to dress up like women and children! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) You like to dress up like a woman? (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone) | |
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Emo Philips | Women. You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I told my wife to dress up, as you saw, so that your young lady would follow her without hesitation. |
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| Language | Translations for "TO DRESS UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 扮 (adorn, to disguise oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kicicomázza magát (prank, to deck oneself out, to dress up to the nines, to make dainty, to preen oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 着飾る , 作り立てる (to adorn, to build up, to decorate), 刈り上'る (to reap completely, to trim up). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きかざる (hear-not monkey), つくりたてる (to adorn, to build up, to decorate), かりあ'る (to charter, to hire, to lease, to reap completely, to requisition, to trim up). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay essdray upay doozdìnav. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outdress, outpress, postured, postures, proudest, spouters, sprouted, uptossed. | |
-2 letters: deports, despots, detours, dourest, dousers, dusters, estrous, oestrus, ousters, outsped, petrous, poseurs, posters, posture, pouters, prestos, proteus, pseudos, redouts, redtops, respots, rousted, sourest, souters, sported, spoused, spouted, spouter, sprouts, spurted, stopers, stoures, strouds, stupors, trouped, troupes, trussed, tussore. | |
-3 letters: deport, depots, despot, detour, dopers. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-p-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outpressed, outspreads. | |
+2 letters: rudderposts. | |
+3 letters: superstardom, uprootedness. | |
+4 letters: postgraduates, serendipitous, superconducts, superstardoms. | |
+5 letters: boustrophedons, productiveness, superadditions, superdiplomats, uprootednesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 44 52 45 53 53 55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   D R E S S   U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0044 0052 0045 0053 0053 0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492385239535325550 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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