dress vs jacket

jacket vs dress

dress and jacket both are nouns.

dress is an adjective but jacket is not an adjective.

dress and jacket both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dress	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
jacket	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, jacket is a hyponym of dress; that is, jacket is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dress:

dress: provide with clothes or put clothes on
jacket: put a jacket on

Other hyponyms of dress include prim, prim out, prim up, cover, wrap up, frock, shirt, habit, vesture, overclothe, overdress, underdress, corset, shoe, coat, costume, dress up, robe, vest, gown.

dress (noun)	jacket (noun)
a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice	a short coat
clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion	an outer wrapping or casing
clothing in general	(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
	the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
	the outer skin of a potato

dress (adjective)	jacket (adjective)
(of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
suitable for formal occasions

dress (verb)	jacket (verb)
put on clothes	put a jacket on
provide with clothes or put clothes on	provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
apply a bandage or medication to
arrange attractively
dress or groom with elaborate care
give a neat appearance to
dress in a certain manner
kill and prepare for market or consumption
convert into leather
put a dressing on
put a finish on
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
provide with decoration
cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
arrange in ranks

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