dry
IPA: drˈaɪ
noun
- The process by which something is dried.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- (Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
- (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
adjective
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (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.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) 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.
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
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Examples of "dry" in Sentences
- SANCHEZ: If ever there's been an appropriate use of the term dry run, this is it.
- SANCHEZ (voice-over): If ever there's been an appropriate use of the term dry run, this is it.
- I. iii.77 (152,5) [It's dry, sir] What is the jest of _dry hand_, I know not any better than Sir Andrew.
- TioRMAiGHiM, to dry up, to make dry» no go tirmaigheadh no. huifgeadha suas 6n ttalamh, until the waters were dried up fromoflF the Earth.
- You can dry them by shaking them up lightly in a large clean cloth, and you can spread them out and let them get _dry_ an hour or two before they are dressed.
- ANNIE JACOBSON, AUTHOR, "TERROR IN THE SKIES": Well, you know, I like your use of the term dry run, and, of course, the president used that term over the weekend.
- It was simply squeezing the title dry of all poetic suggestions; and it would have been quite as appropriate to change the name of “The Scarlet Letter” to “The Clergyman's Penance,” or to call
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- -- Take a yard of flannel, fold it in three widths, then dip it in very hot water, wring it out tolerably dry, and apply it evenly and neatly round and round the bowels; over this, and to keep it in its place, and to keep in the moisture, put on a _dry_ flannel bandage, four yards long and four inches wide.
- Of the 1,919.9 lbs. of ash in the acre of clover-roots and stubble, there are 1,429.4 lbs. of sand, clay, etc. But even after deducting this amount of impurities from a gross total of dry matter per acre, we still have 7,492.2 lbs. of dry roots and stubble per acre, or nearly 3¼ tons of _dry_ roots per acre.
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