dry

adjective · noun · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

drierdryerdriest

Superlative

dryestdrie

1.
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?
2.
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
This well is as dry as that cow.
3.
(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
4.
(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
5.
(figuratively)(figurative) Athirst, eager.
6.
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.
7.
(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.
8.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
9.
(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
10.
(derogatory)(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
11.
(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
12.
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
never dry fire a bow
dry humping her girlfriend
making a dry run
dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

drysdriesdrie

1.
The process by which something is dried.
This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
2.
(US)A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
3.
An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
4.
(Australia, with definite article)(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
5.
(Australia)An area of waterless country.
6.
Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
7.
(British, UK)(British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

dries

V_ing/Gerund

drying

V_ed/pp

driedno-table-tags

1.
(intransitive)To lose moisture.
The clothes dried on the line.
The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
Đồng nghĩa: dehydrate, desiccate
2.
(transitive)To remove moisture from.
Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
Đồng nghĩa: dehydrate, desiccate
3.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
Đồng nghĩa: dry up
4.
(informal, intransitive)(intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

dehydrate desiccatedry upfree from liquid or moisture dryfree from alcoholic beverages sober

Trái nghĩa

wet live livingfree from liquid or moisture wetabstinent from or banning alcohol wetnot using afterburners or water injection wet

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (dry; parched, withered), from *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (dry, hard), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (to strengthen; become hard), from *dʰer- (to hold, support).