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Dryer   /drˈaɪər/   Listen
Dryer

noun
1.
An appliance that removes moisture.  Synonym: drier.


Dry

adjective
(compar. drier; superl. driest)
1.
Free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet.  "Dry clothes" , "A dry climate" , "Dry splintery boards" , "A dry river bed" , "The paint is dry"  Antonym: wet.
2.
Humorously sarcastic or mocking.  Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry.  "An ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely" , "An ironic novel" , "An ironical smile" , "With a wry Scottish wit"
3.
Lacking moisture or volatile components.  Antonym: wet.
4.
Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.  "A dry state"  Antonym: wet.
5.
Not producing milk.  Antonym: wet.
6.
(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation.  "A dry Bordeaux"  Antonym: sweet.
7.
Without a mucous or watery discharge.  "That rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose"  Antonym: phlegmy.
8.
Not shedding tears.  "With dry eyes"
9.
Lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless.  Synonym: juiceless.  "A dry lecture filled with trivial details" , "Dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"
10.
Used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones.
11.
Unproductive especially of the expected results.  "A mind dry of new ideas"
12.
Having no adornment or coloration.  "Rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"
13.
(of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish.  "Dry meat"
14.
Having a large proportion of strong liquor.
15.
Lacking warmth or emotional involvement.  "A dry reading of the lines" , "A dry critique"
16.
Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages.  Synonym: teetotal.  "No thank you; I happen to be teetotal"



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"Dryer" Quotes from Famous Books



... a grove of sesum trees near the Lucknow cantonments formed in the same way, but with little or no outlay in irrigation. The trees were planted, and all the cost incurred has been in the people employed to protect them from trespass. In a dryer climate they might require irrigation for a few years. Groves of saul, alias sukhoo trees, might be formed in the same manner in the vicinity of all stations where there are artillery bullocks; and the bullocks themselves would benefit by being employed ...
— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman
... of bark, the wood and the pith. The pith is soft, spongy and somewhat sappy. There is also sap between the bark and the wood. An older twig has changed its color. There is a layer of brown bark, which has replaced the colorless skin. In a twig a year old the wood is thicker and the pith is dryer. Comparing sections of older branches with these twigs, we find that the pith has shrunk and become quite dry, and that the wood is in rings. It is not practicable for the pupils to compare the number of these rings with the bud-rings, and so find out for themselves ...
— Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf • Jane H. Newell
... rubber, the next step is to dry it thoroughly. The old way was to hang it up for several weeks. The new way is to cut it into strips, lay it upon steel trays, and place it in a vacuum dryer. This is kept hot, and whatever moisture is in the rubber is either evaporated or sucked out by a vacuum pump. It now passes through another machine much like the washer, and is formed into sheets. The square threads from which elastic webbing is made may ...
— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan
... path was not a bad one. And the farther he went the more solid and the dryer it became. Once he passed through a small clearing, man-made, where three or four cotton bushes huddled together forlornly in company with a luxuriant ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... apply not to single species, but to groups or genera; the species of most genera are adapted at least to rather hotter, and rather less hot, to rather damper and dryer climates; and when the several species of a group are beaten and exterminated by the several species of another group, it will not, I think, generally be from EACH new species being adapted to the climate, but from ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin


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