DRY

adjective drier · dryer · driest · dryest · drie

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. Built without or lacking mortar. [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids. Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
5. figuratively Athirst, eager. Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
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. 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 These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
9. Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened. Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
10. 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.
11. Lacking interest, boring. a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject
12. Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands. Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
13. Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
14. Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust. This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
15. derogatory Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
16. Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
17. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent. never dry fire a bow
18. Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom. dry bite
19. In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow). Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
20. Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
21. Malaysia, Singapore Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup. 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.

Similar: anhydrous, arid, bone dry, droughty, dry, dry as a bone, exsuccous, parched, sare, sear, sere, unmoist

noun drys · dries · drie

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 The dry season. […] 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— […]
5. Australia An area of waterless country.
6. Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger. All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
7. UK A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

verb dries · drying · dried · dry

1. intransitive To lose moisture. The clothes dried on the line.
2. transitive To remove moisture from. Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
3. figuratively, transitive To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
4. informal, intransitive For an actor to forget their lines while performing. An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”

phrase

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).don't repeat yourself The general principle here is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (HTOO). If you duplicate information in two or more places, sooner or later, you'll forget to update one of the copies […]

adjective DRYer · DRYest

1. Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.

verb DRYs · DRYing · DRYed

1. To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.

proper noun Drys

1. A surname.