English Dictionary

dry

/dɹaɪ/

noun

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.

I used a hairdryer to speed up the dry of my wet clothes.

意味（1）

The process by which something is dried.

This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.

意味（2）

(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

意味（3）

An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.

Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.

意味（4）

(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.

[…] 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— […]

意味（5）

(Australia) An area of waterless country.

意味（6）

Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.

All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.

意味（7）

(Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.