Free from or lacking moisture. / Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk. / (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.

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.

(intransitive) To lose moisture. / (transitive) To remove moisture from. / (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

present participle of dry

The act of drying. / A method of food preservation by removing water.

(software engineering) Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).

(software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.

(software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.

A surname.

(idiomatic, informal, Britain, Ireland) temporarily refraining from drinking alcohol