dry
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- drie (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]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 Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: drī, IPA(key): /dɹaɪ/, [d͡ʒɹaɪ̯], [d̠͡ɹ̠˔aɪ̯], [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷaɪ̯]
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Adjective
[edit]dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or 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, volumes (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 (agriculture) 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 and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry 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 still dry. My name is James.
- (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]:
- 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:
- Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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.
- 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 81:
- When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry 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-intensity dry 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 […]
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- 2006 July 30, Teo Pau Lin, quoting Wong Hon Mun, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L28:
- I would have mee tai mak (short, thick noodles), either in soup or dry, with fishballs, pork balls or yong tau foo at this noodles shop near my house.
Synonyms
[edit]- (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:dry
Antonyms
[edit]- (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
Derived terms
[edit]- active dry yeast
- air-dry
- bleed dry
- blow-dry
- bone-dry
- bone dry
- damp-dry
- drily
- drip-dry
- dry abscess
- dry-aged
- dry agent
- dry as a bone
- dry as a dead dingo's donga
- dry as a dead dingo's donger
- dry as a nun's cunt
- dry as a nun's nasty
- dry as dust
- dry bar
- dry bay
- dry behind the ears
- dry beriberi
- dry bite
- dry blower
- dry bob
- dry bone
- dry bread
- dry brushing
- dry-bulb temperature
- dry bulb temperature
- dry cell
- dry cell battery
- Dry Chaco
- dry clean
- dry-clean
- dry cleaner
- dry-cleaner
- dry cleaning
- dry-cleaning
- dry closet
- dry cough
- dry cupping
- dry-cure
- dry-cured
- dry distillation
- dry-dock
- dry dock
- dry drunk
- dry erase
- dry-erase
- dry eye
- dry-eyed
- dry eye syndrome
- dry film thickness
- dry fire
- dry-fire
- dry-fisted
- dry fly
- dry fog
- dry-foot
- dry ginger
- dry goods
- dry guillotine
- dry-gulch
- dry-handed
- dry haze
- dry heater
- dry-heave
- dry hire
- dry hole
- dry hop
- dry-hopped
- dry hopping
- dry humor
- dry humour
- dry hump
- dry ice
- dry jogger
- dry joggers
- dry-lab
- dry lab
- dry-labber
- dry-labbing
- dry labbing
- dry lake
- dry land
- dry light
- dry lightning
- dry line
- dry lodging
- dry lunch
- dryly
- dry marker
- dry market
- dry martini
- dry mass
- dry matter
- dry measure
- dry meter
- dry mouth
- dry needling
- dryness
- dry nurse
- dry-nurse
- dry off
- dry orgasm
- dry pail
- dry pailing
- dry plate
- dry point
- dry pond
- dry port
- dry pot
- dry powder
- dry powder inhaler
- dry reach
- dry rent
- dry riser
- dry rot
- dry-rot
- dry-run
- dry run
- dry-salt
- dry sausage
- dry season
- dry sex
- dry shaving
- dry-shod
- dry shower
- dry sink
- dry snitch
- dry socket
- dry spell
- dry steering
- dry stone
- drystone
- dry-stone
- dry stone wall
- dry stove
- dry sump
- dry-tool
- dry transfer
- dry valley
- Dry Valley
- dry wall
- drywall
- dry wash
- dry weight
- dry well
- feet dry
- fluff-dry
- freeze-dry
- hang out to dry
- high and dry
- home and dry
- ink isn't dry on
- in the green tree … in the dry
- keep one's powder dry
- keep the powder dry
- leave someone high and dry
- line-dry
- medium dry
- Mexican dry soup
- on the dry
- run like a dry creek
- self-dry
- smoke-dry
- spin-dry
- spray-dry
- suck dry
- sun-dry
- touch-dry
- tumble-dry
- tumble dry
- watch paint dry
- wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
- you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
- you never miss the water till the well runs dry
- you never miss the water until the well runs dry
Descendants
[edit]- Sranan Tongo: drei
Translations
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Noun
[edit]- 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.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia[1], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 91:
- […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:
- [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- 1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album)[2]:
- All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
- 2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor[3]:
- Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
- 2021 July 26, cub_beer, “Archived copy”, in eBay[4], archived from the original on 31 July 2021:
- Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Antonym: wet
Verb
[edit]dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- Synonym: dry up
- (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
- 1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre, page 146:
- An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
- 2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, page 126:
- In one of the previews I dried (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”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
- Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | (to) dry | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | dry | dried | |
2nd-person singular | dry, driest† | ||
3rd-person singular | dries, drieth† | ||
plural | dry | ||
subjunctive | dry | dried | |
imperative | dry | — | |
participles | drying | dried |
Derived terms
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See also
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[edit]Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Albanian *drūna, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskrit द्रुणा (druṇā, “bow”), Persian درونه (“rainbow”).[1]
Noun
[edit]dry m (plural dryna, definite dryni, definite plural drynat)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dry”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English dry "lacking interest, boring" or by some interpretation of wet "to go clubbing"?”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dry (Hong Kong Cantonese)
Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dry
- Alternative form of drye
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drȳ m (nominative plural drȳas)
- wizard, sorcerer
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
- Gehelp urum godum and hat to þe gefeccan þisne dry Iulianum þe ure goda anlicnysse mid ealle to-brytte...
- Help our gods, and command men to bring thee this sorcerer Julianus, who hath utterly broken the images of our gods,...
- Hīe woldon forbærnan þone drȳ. ― They wanted to burn the wizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
Declension
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English dry.
Adjective
[edit]dry m or f or n (indeclinable)
- dry (about drinks)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | dry | dry | dry | dry | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | dry | dry | dry | dry | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /drɨː/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /driː/
Verb
[edit]dry
- Soft mutation of try.
Mutation
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