dry
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaɪ̯/
The English word “dry” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- Built without or lacking mortar.
- Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
- Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Amusing without showing amusement.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- 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.
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
Etymology
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from…
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