uniforms

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of uniform.

   Hospital staff change into clean uniforms at the start of each shift.

   The museum displays military uniforms from several different centuries.

   Note

   A regular plural that counts more than clothing. Besides the outfits themselves, it can count the people wearing them. In police talk, uniforms are the uniformed officers, as opposed to the detectives. The same spelling also serves as the verb form, meaning "dresses in a uniform". A determiner or number in front (the uniforms, two uniforms) marks the noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of uniform.

   Note

   A transitive verb, so it always needs an object. The agency uniforms its guards; you would not say simply "the agency uniforms." Its past participle is the familiar adjective in a uniformed officer. A singular subject directly before it, rather than an article or number, is what separates it from the plural noun.

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