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See also:DryandDRY

Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation ofEnglishDarai withy as a placeholder.

Symbol

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dry

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forDarai.

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Adjective and noun fromMiddle Englishdrye,dryge,drüȝe, fromOld Englishdrȳġe(“dry; parched, withered”), fromProto-West Germanic*drūgī,*draugī, fromProto-Germanic*drūgiz,*draugiz(“dry, hard”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰerǵʰ-(“to strengthen; become hard”), from*dʰer-(“to hold, support”). The verb derives fromMiddle Englishdrien, fromOld Englishdrȳġan(“to dry”), fromProto-West Germanic*drūgijan, fromProto-Germanic*drūgiz(“hard, desiccated, dry”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰerǵʰ-(“strong, hard, solid”).

cognates and related terms
Cognate withScotsdry,drey(“dry”),North Frisiandrüg,driig,Saterland Frisiandruuch(“dry”),West Frisiandroech(“dry”),Dutchdroog(“dry”),Low Germandröög(“dry”),Germandröge(“dull”),Icelandicdraugur(“a dry log”). Related also toGermantrocken(“dry”),West Frisiandrege(“long-lasting”),Danishdrøj(“tough”),Swedishdryg(“lasting, hard”),Icelandicdrjúgur(“ample, long”),Latinfirmus(“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See alsodrought,drain,dree.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dry (comparativedrierordryer,superlativedriestordryest)

  1. Free from orlackingmoisture.
    This towel'sdry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't godry as it cooks?
    • 1716 March 16 (Gregorian calendar),Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Monday, March 5.[1716.]”, inThe Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published1721,→OCLC:
      The weather,[…] we[…] both agreed, was toodry for the season.
    • 1850,Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page449:
      The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in thedryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
    • 1855–1858,William H[ickling] Prescott,History of the Reign ofPhilip the Second, King of Spain, volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company,→OCLC:
      Not adry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
    • 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, inCNN‎[1]:
      The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest anddriest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
    • 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on31 July 2021:
      It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter,drier West.[…] Experts say the smallest towns are especially vulnerable. And few places in Utah are as tiny or dry as Echo, a jumble of homes squeezed between a freight railroad and stunning red-rock cliffs.
  3. Unable toproduce aliquid, aswater,(petrochemistry)oil, or(agriculture)milk.
    Hyponym:non-milch
    This well is asdry as that cow.
  4. (masonry)Built without orlackingmortar.
  5. (chemistry)Anhydrous:free from orlackingwater inanystate,regardless of thepresence ofotherliquids.
    Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
  6. (figurative)Athirst,eager.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:
      Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſodrie he was for Sway) with King ofNaples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas pooreMillaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
  7. Free from orlackingalcohol oralcoholicbeverages.
    Of course it's adry house. He was an alcoholic but he's beendry for almost a year now.
  8. (law)Describing anarea wheresales ofalcoholic orstrongalcoholicbeverages arebanned.
    You'll have to drive out of thisdry county to find any liquor.
  9. Free from orlackingembellishment orsweetness,particularly:
    1. (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale)Low insugar;lackingsugar;unsweetened.
      Proper martinis are made with Londondry gin anddry vermouth.
      • 1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr.,Never Say Never Again:
        Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
        James Bond: Yes, but my martini is stilldry. My name is James.
    2. (humor)Amusing without showingamusement.
      Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has adry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had adry wit.
    3. Lackinginterest,boring.
      Adry 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”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene v]:
        Ol. Go too,y'are adryfoole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
        Clo. Two faults Madona, thatdrinke & goodcounsellwil amend: forgiue the dryfoole drink, then is thefoole notdry[…]
      • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows,The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:
        Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in adry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
      • 2012, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Gilbert,Churchill: The Power of Words, page14:
        But there we were given only the dullest,driest, pemmicanised forms like The Student's Hume, Once I had a hundred pages of The Student's Hume as a holiday task.
    4. (poker)Of aboard orflop: Not permitting the creation of many or of stronghands.
      Jake was hoping to make something good out of hissuited 7-8 hand, but the flop came outdry: 2-5-10rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
    5. (fine arts)Exhibitingpreciseexecutionlackingdelicatecontours orsofttransitions ofcolor.
  10. (aviation) Not usingafterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
    This fighter jet's engine has a maximumdry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
  11. (sciences, somewhat derogatory)Involvingcomputationsrather thanwork withbiological orchemicalmatter.
  12. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
  14. Without a usualcomplement orconsummation;impotent.
    neverdry fire a bow
    dry humping her girlfriend
    making adry run
    dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches
    • 1958, Gordon Grimley,The Book of the Bow, page167:
      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, volume63, page57:
      […] most like "dry firing," or adry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
    • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh,Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books,→ISBN, page81:
      When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If youdry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy,[…]
    • 2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton,Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press,→ISBN, page 8:
      Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensitydry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking[…]
    1. Of abite from ananimal: not containing the usualvenom.
      dry bite
  15. In adry spell (e.g.,unemployed,slow).
    Things aredry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
  16. (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neitherconsecration norcommunion.
  17. (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed withsauce and not served in asoup.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“free from liquid or moisture”):SeeThesaurus: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

Derived terms

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Terms derived fromdry (adjective)

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Translations

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free from liquid or moisture
free of water in any state
maintaining temperance
doing computations

Noun

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dry (pluraldrysordries)

  1. The process by which something is dried.
    This towel is still damp: I think it needs anotherdry.
  2. (US) Aprohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
    • c. 1952-1996,Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
      Thedrys were as unhappy with the second part ofthe speech as the wets were with the first half.
  3. An area with little or norain, or sheltered from it.
    Come under my umbrella and keep in thedry.
  4. (chiefly Australia, with "the") Thedry season.
    • 1938,Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, inCapricornia‎[4], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published1943, page91:
      […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray[…] for that which formerly he had cursed—theDry! the good oldDry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame—[…]
    • 2006,Alexis Wright,Carpentaria, Giramondo, published2012, page169:
      [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of theDry.
  5. (Australia) An area ofwaterless country.
  6. Unsweetenedginger ale;dry ginger.
    • 1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, inIdea(album)‎[5]:
      All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskeydry.
    • 2018 May 2, pyatts,Tripadvisor‎[6]:
      Can you buydry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
    • 2021 July 26, cub_beer, “Archived copy”, ineBay‎[7], archived fromthe original on31 July 2021:
      Black Douglas Blended Scotch andDry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
  7. (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-lineConservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
    Antonym:wet

Verb

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dry (third-person singular simple presentdries,present participledrying,simple past and past participledried)

  1. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
    Synonyms:dehydrate,desiccate
    Hyponyms:(loosely synonymous)dry out,dry up
    The clothesdried on the line.
    The fruitdried in the dehydrator.
  2. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
    Synonyms:dehydrate,desiccate
    Hyponyms:(loosely synonymous)dry out,dry up
    Devindried her eyes with a handkerchief.
    Wedried the fruit in the dehydrator.
  3. (transitive, figurative) Toexhaust; to cause torun dry.
    Synonym:dry up
  4. (intransitive, informal, theater) For anactor toforget theirlines whileperforming.
    • 1986, Richard Collier,Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre, page146:
      An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
    • 2006, Michael Dobson,Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, page126:
      In one of the previews Idried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.
    • 2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, inFT Weekend, Life & Arts, page18:
      Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'ddried.Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofdry
infinitive(to)dry
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingulardrydried
2nd-personsingulardry,driest†
3rd-personsingulardries,drieth†
pluraldry
subjunctivedrydried
imperativedry—
participlesdryingdried

Derived terms

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Translations

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to become dry
to make dry
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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-Albanian*drūna, from the same root asdru. Cognate toSanskritद्रुणा(druṇā,“bow”),Persianدرونه(“rainbow”).[1]

Noun

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dry m (pluraldryna, definitedryni, definite pluraldrynat)

  1. lock,bolt

Declension

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Declension ofdry
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativedrydrynidrynadrynat
accusativedrynin
dativedrynidrynitdrynavedrynave
ablativedrynash

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References

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  1. ^Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “dry”, inAlbanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page77

Chinese

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English dry "lacking interest, boring" or by some interpretation of wet "to go clubbing"?”)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɹaːi̯⁵⁵/

Adjective

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dry(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (of a person) lackingsex orromance

Middle English

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Adjective

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dry

  1. alternative form ofdrye

Old English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from aBrythonic language, fromProto-Brythonic*drüw, fromProto-Celtic*druwits(“druid”).

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Noun

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drȳ m (nominative pluraldrȳas)

  1. wizard,sorcerer
    • late 10th century,Ælfric,"Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
      Gehelp urum godum and hat to þe gefeccan þisnedry Iulianum þe ure goda anlicnysse mid ealle to-brytte...
      Help our gods, and command men to bring thee thissorcerer Julianus, who hath utterly broken the images of our gods,...
    • Hīe woldon forbærnan þonedrȳ. ―They wanted to burn thewizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)

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Stronga-stem:

singularplural
nominativedrȳdrȳas
accusativedrȳdrȳas
genitivedrȳesdrȳa
dativedrȳedrȳum

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishdry.

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dry m orf orn (indeclinable)

  1. dry(about drinks)

Declension

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Declension ofdry (invariable)
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitedrydrydrydry
definite————
genitive-
dative		indefinitedrydrydrydry
definite————

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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dry

  1. soft mutation oftry

Mutation

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Mutated forms oftry
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
trydrynhrythry

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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