Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈdɹaɪ/
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) 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:
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
Substantiivi
- The process by which something is dried.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Esimerkit
- Could you hand me a dry towel?
- My throat feels itchy and dry.
- Cover the chicken as it bakes or it'll get too dry.
- The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- Give the dry fool drink.
- I like to take a dry sherry before lunch on Sundays.
- A former alcoholic, he's been dry for almost a year now.
- You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
- It was a dry house.
- He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body.
- [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
- The cow is dry.
- a very dry lecture on archaeology
- These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
- The clothes dried on the line.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- Their sources of income dried up.
- The stream of chatter dried up.
- dry vodka
- The whole city went dry for a week after the big drunken riot.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | dried | Imperfekti | dried |
| Partisiipin preesens | drying | Monikko | dries |
| Komparatiivi | drier | Komparatiivi | dryer |
| Superlatiivi | driest | Superlatiivi | dryest |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | dries | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | drieth (vanhahtava) |
| Monikko | drys |