{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "draɪ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/dry.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/dry.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).\nVerb 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”).\n\n\ncognates and related terms\n\nCognate 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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Free from or lacking moisture.\nThis towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?\n1716 March 16 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Monday, March 5. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; , volume IV, London: Jacob Tonson, , published 1721, →OCLC:The weather, we both agreed, was too dry for the season.\n1855–1858, William H Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly." }, { "mean": "Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.\nHyponym: non-milch\nThis well is as dry as that cow." }, { "mean": "(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.\n1937 September 21, J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN, page 241: already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening." }, { "mean": "(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.\nDry alcohol is 200 proof." }, { "mean": "(figurative) Athirst, eager.\n1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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." }, { "mean": "Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.\nOf course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.\nc. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry" }, { "mean": "(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.\nYou'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor." }, { "mean": "Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:\n1733, , An Essay on Man. , (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J Wilford, , →OCLC:These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.", "submean": [ "(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.\nProper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.", "(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.\nSteven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.", "Lacking interest, boring.\nA dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.\nc. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry ", "(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color." ] }, { "mean": "(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.\nThis fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons." }, { "mean": "(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter." }, { "mean": "(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb)." }, { "mean": "Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.\nnever dry fire a bow\ndry humping her girlfriend\nmaking a dry run\n1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167:\nA loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.\n1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57:\n most like \"dry firing,\" or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.\n1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 81:When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, \n2015, Naoko Takei Moore; Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 8:Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking", "submean": [ "Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom." ] }, { "mean": "(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The process by which something is dried.\nThis towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry." }, { "mean": "(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).\nc. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996\nThe drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half." }, { "mean": "An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.\nCome under my umbrella and keep in the dry." }, { "mean": "(chiefly Australia, with \"the\") The dry season.\n1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, \n 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— \n2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 169:\nhe spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry." }, { "mean": "(Australia) An area of waterless country." }, { "mean": "Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.\n1968, Bee Gees, \"Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry\", Idea(album) .\nAll day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.\n2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor‎:Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?\n2021 July 26, cub_beer, eBay‎:Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title)." }, { "mean": "(Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.\nAntonym: wet" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To lose moisture.\nThe clothes dried on the line." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To remove moisture from.\nDevin dried her eyes with a handkerchief." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.\n1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre (page 146)\nAn actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”\n2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (page 126)\nIn one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "desiccant\ndesiccate\ndesiccation" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }