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

present participle of dry

plural of drying

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.

plural of Dry

A surname.

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

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