dinner dress vs uniform

dinner dress

noun
  • A gown worn by Victorian women for dinners and parties held in people's homes. It often had long sleeves, a high neck, or a narrow skirt to set it apart from an evening gown. 

uniform

noun
  • A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group. 

  • A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective). 

adj
  • Unvarying; all the same. 

  • (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes. 

  • with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence 

  • Consistent; conforming to one standard. 

  • Composed of a single macromolecular species. 

verb
  • To clothe in a uniform. 

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