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Definition
adj (English)
1. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.Examples: "[A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening."
2. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.Examples: "Dry alcohol is 200 proof."
3. (figurative) Athirst, eager.Examples: "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."figuratively
4. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.Examples: "You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor."
5. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:Examples: "These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament."
6. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:Examples: "Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth."; "Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet. James Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James."
noun (English)
1. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).Examples: "The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half."US
2. (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.Examples: "[…] 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— […]"; "[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry."Australiawith-definite-article
3. (Australia) An area of waterless country.Australia
4. (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.Antonyms: wetBritishUK
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To lose moisture.Examples: "The clothes dried on the line."; "The fruit dried in the dehydrator."Synonyms: dehydrate, desiccateintransitive
2. (transitive) To remove moisture from.Examples: "Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief."; "We dried the fruit in the dehydrator."Synonyms: dehydrate, desiccatetransitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.Synonyms: dry upfigurativelytransitive
4. (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.Examples: "An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”"; "In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise."; "Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them."informalintransitive
phrase (English)
1. (software engineering) Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).Examples: "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 […]"abbreviationacronymalt-of
adj (English)
1. (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.Antonyms: WET
verb (English)
1. (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
Definition source: Wiktionary