dry
see also: DRY, Dry
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DRY
Adjective
Dry
Proper noun
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see also: DRY, Dry
Etymology
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe, from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ-, from *dʰer- ("to hold, support").
Pronunciation Adjectivedry (comparative dryer, superlative dryest)
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
- 1716 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Monday, March 5. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC ↗:
- The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
- 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
- Hyponym: non-milch
- This well is as dry as that cow.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Gathering of the Clouds”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC ↗, page 247 ↗:
- [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene v]:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC ↗:
- These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
- (wine & other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene v]:
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
- (science, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent. - never dry fire a bow
- dry humping her girlfriend
- making a dry run
- 1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167:
- A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.
- 1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57:
- […] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- (free from liquid or moisture) See Thesaurus:dry
- (antonym(s) of “free from liquid or moisture”): See Thesaurus:wet
- (antonym(s) of “abstinent from or banning alcohol”): wet
- (antonym(s) of “not using afterburners or water injection”): wet
- (antonym(s) of “of a scientist or lab: doing computation”): wet
- German: trocken
dry (plural drys)
- The process by which something is dried.
- This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
- The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
- c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
- (chiefly, Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- 1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album):
- All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Antonyms: wet
dry (dries, present participle drying; simple past and past participle dried)
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- The clothes dried on the line.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal, theatre) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
Conjugation of dry
- French: sécher
- German: trocknen
- Italian: asciugarsi, rinsecchire, essiccare, inaridire
- Portuguese: secar
- Russian: со́хнуть
- Spanish: secarse
- French: sécher, faire sécher
- German: trocknen, abtrocknen
- Italian: asciugare, seccare
- Portuguese: secar, enxugar
- Russian: суши́ть
- Spanish: secar, enjugar
DRY
Adjective
dry (comparative dryer, superlative dryest)
- (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
- Antonyms: WET
dry (dries, present participle drying; simple past and past participle dried)
- (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
Dry
Proper noun
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