Dry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.

   “This well is as dry as that cow.”

3. sıfat 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. sıfat Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

   “Dry alcohol is 200 proof.”

5. sıfat 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. sıfat 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. sıfat 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. sıfat Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly

   “These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.”

9. sıfat Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.

   “Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.”

10. sıfat 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. sıfat Lacking interest, boring.

    “a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject”

12. sıfat 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. sıfat Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
14. sıfat Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.

    “This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.”

15. sıfat Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
16. sıfat Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
17. sıfat Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.

    “never dry fire a bow”

18. sıfat Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.

    “dry bite”

19. sıfat In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).

    “Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.”

20. sıfat Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
21. isim The process by which something is dried.

    “This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.”

22. isim 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.”

23. isim An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.

    “Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.”

24. isim 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— […]”

25. isim An area of waterless country.
26. isim 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.”

27. isim A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
28. fiil To lose moisture.

    “The clothes dried on the line.”

29. fiil To remove moisture from.

    “Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.”

30. fiil To exhaust; to cause to run dry.