dry
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈdɹaɪ̯/|[ˈdɹ̝ʷaɪ̯]|[ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷaɪ̯]
美 /ˈdɹaɪ̯/|[ˈdɹ̝ʷaɪ̯]|[ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷaɪ̯]|/ˈdɹɑɪ̯/|[ˈdɹ̝ʷɑ̟ɪ̯] ~ [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷɑ̟ɪ̯]|/ˈdɹɒ̈ɪ̯/|[ˈdɹ̝ʷɒ̈ɪ̯] ~ [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷɒ̈ɪ̯]
英文释义
名词 n.
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The process by which something is dried.
— This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
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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.
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An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
— Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
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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— […]
- An area of waterless country.
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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.
- A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
动词 v.
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To lose moisture.
— The clothes dried on the line.
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To remove moisture from.
— Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
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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.”
形容词 adj.
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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?
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Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
— This well is as dry as that cow.
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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.
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Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
— Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
— These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness; Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
— Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness; 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.
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness; Lacking interest, boring.
— a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness; 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!.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness; Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
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Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
— This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
- Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
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Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
— never dry fire a bow
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Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.; Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
— dry bite
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In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
— Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
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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.
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active dry yeast
adry
air-dry
airdry
air dry
bleed dry
blow-dry
blow dry
bone dry
bone-dry
damp-dry
drily
driness
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
drybag
dry bar
dry bay
dry beat
dry behind the ears
dry beriberi
dry biscuit
dry bite
dry blower
dry bob
dry bone
dry bread
drybrush
dry brushing
dry-bulb temperature
dry bulb temperature
dry cell
dry cell battery
Dry Chaco
dry chemical
dry-clean
dry clean
dry cleaner
dry-cleaner
dry cleaner's
dry-cleaning
dry cleaning
dry closet
dry cough
Dry Creek
dry cupping
dry-cure
dry-cured
dry distillation
drydock
dry-dock
dry dock
Dry Doddington
dry drunk
dry-erase
dry erase
dry eye
dry-eyed
dry eye syndrome
dryfat
dry film thickness
dry-fire
dry fire
dry-fisted
dry fly
dry fog
dry food
dry-foot
Dry Fork
dry-fry
dry ginger
dry goods
dry guillotine
dry-gulch
drygulcher
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 hydrant
dry ice
dryish
Dry January
dry jogger
dry joggers
dry-labber
dry-labbing
dry labbing
dry-lab
dry lab
dry lake
dry land
dryland
dry lease
dry light
dry lightning
dryline
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
drypainting
Dry Plain
dry plate
dry point
drypoint
dry pond
dry port
dry pot
dry powder
dry powder inhaler
dry razor
dry reach
dry rent
dry riser
dry rot
dry-rot
dry-run
dry run
dry-salt
drysalter
dry sausage
dryscape
dry season
dry sex
dry shaver
dry shaving
dry-shod
dry shower
dryside
dry sink
dry snitch
dry socket
dry spell
dry sprinkler
drystack
dry steering
dry stone
drystone
dry-stone
dry stone wall
dry stove
drysuit
dry sump
dry tech
dryth
dry-tool
dry transfer
dry valley
dry vomit
drywall
dry wall
dry-wall
dry wash
dry weight
dry well
drywipe
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
line-dry
medium dry
Mexican dry soup
off-dry
on the dry
roughdry
run like a dry creek
self-dry
semidry
smoke-dry
spin-dry
spray-dry
stay-dry
suck dry
sun-dry
superdry
the ink was not even dry
touch-dry
traditional dry red
tumble dry
tumble-dry
ultradry
undry
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
before the ink had time to dry
before the ink was dry
drier
dryable
drydown
dryer
drying agent
drying height
drying machine
drying oil
drying time
drying-up
dry one's eyes
dry out
dry up
fordry
freeze-drying
nondrying
overdry
quick-drying
redry
self-drying
updry
wind-dry
词源
词源 1
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”).
cognates and related terms
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.
cognates and related terms
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.
词源 2
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”).
cognates and related terms
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.
cognates and related terms
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.
词源 3
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”).
cognates and related terms
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.
cognates and related terms
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.
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