dry

English

/dɹaɪ/

adj
Definitions
  • Free from or lacking moisture.
  • Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
  • (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
  • (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
  • (figurative) Athirst, eager.
  • Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  • (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  • Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
  • (science) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  • (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
  • Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
  • (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English drye inherited from Old English drȳġe (dry, withered, parched) inherited from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (strengthen, become hard solid, hard, become hard, be firm) inherited from Old English dryġan (dry).

Origin

Old English

dryġan

Gloss

dry

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

干, 乾

Emoji
🏜️

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