dry
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
Verb from Old English dryġan (“to dry”), from drȳġe (“dry”).
Alternative formsEdit
- drie (obsolete)
AdjectiveEdit
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?
- March 5, 1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 22
- The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
- This well is as dry as that cow.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, p. 241:
- […] already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
- 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, p. 241:
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- (figuratively) Athirst, eager.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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.
- (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 960856019:
- These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
- (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 watergun in order to keep the students' attention.
- (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.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:dry
AntonymsEdit
- (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
- (abstinent from alcohol): wet
- (not using afterburners or water injection): wet
- (of a scientist or lab: doing computation): wet
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: drei
TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit
- 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
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, [1]
- […] 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 2012, p. 169:
- [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, [1]
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (Britain, 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
VerbEdit
dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- The clothes dried on the line.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- And drynke whan þow dryest · ac do nouȝt out of resoun.
- c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her 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.
- 1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre (page 146)
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | dry | ||||||||||
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present participle | drying | ||||||||||
past participle | dried | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I dry | we dry | I am drying | we are drying | I have dried | we have dried | I have been drying | we have been drying | |||
you dry | you dry | you are drying | you are drying | you have dried | you have dried | you have been drying | you have been drying | ||||
he drys | they dry | he is drying | they are drying | he has dried | they have dried | he has been drying | they have been drying | ||||
past | I dried | we dried | I was drying | we were drying | I had dried | we had dried | I had been drying | we had been drying | |||
you dried | you dried | you were drying | you were drying | you had dried | you had dried | you had been drying | you had been drying | ||||
he dried | they dried | he was drying | they were drying | he had dried | they had dried | he had been drying | they had been drying | ||||
future | I will dry | we will dry | I will be drying | we will be drying | I will have dried | we will have dried | I will have been drying | we will have been drying | |||
you will dry | you will dry | you will be drying | you will be drying | you will have dried | you will have dried | you will have been drying | you will have been drying | ||||
he will dry | they will dry | he will be drying | they will be drying | he will have dried | they will have dried | he will have been drying | they will have been drying | ||||
conditional | I would dry | we would dry | I would be drying | we would be drying | I would have dried | we would have dried | I would have been drying | we would have been drying | |||
you would dry | you would dry | you would be drying | you would be drying | you would have dried | you would have dried | you would have been drying | you would have been drying | ||||
he would dry | they would dry | he would be drying | they would be drying | he would have dried | they would have dried | he would have been drying | they would have been drying | ||||
imperative | dry |
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *drūna, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskrit द्रुणा (druṇā, “bow”), Persian درونه (“rainbow”).[1]
NounEdit
dry m (indefinite plural dryna, definite singular dryni, definite plural drynat)
DeclensionEdit
indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) |
definite forms (trajta të shquara) | ||||
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singular (numri njëjës) |
plural (numri shumës) |
singular (numri njëjës) |
plural (numri shumës) | ||
nominative (emërore) |
dry | dryna | dryni | drynat | |
accusative (kallëzore) |
dry | dryna | drynin | drynat | |
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) |
dryni | drynave | drynit | drynavet | |
dative (dhanore) |
dryni | drynave | drynit | drynavet | |
ablative (rrjedhore) |
dryni | drynash | drynit | drynavet |
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “dry”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
Middle EnglishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dry
- Alternative form of drye
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Brythonic language, representing Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
drȳ m
- a sorcerer or magician
- Hi woldon forbærnan ðone dry. ― They would burn the sorceror. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /drɨː/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /driː/
VerbEdit
dry
- Soft mutation of try.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
try | dry | nhry | thry |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |