English Dictionary

dry

/dɹaɪ/

adj

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

The desert is extremely dry.

意味（1）

Free from or lacking moisture.

This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?

意味（2）

Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.

This well is as dry as that cow.

意味（3）

(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.

[…] already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.

意味（4）

(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

Dry alcohol is 200 proof.

意味（5）

(figuratively) Athirst, eager.

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.

意味（6）

Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.

意味（7）

(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.

意味（8）

(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.

Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.

意味（9）

(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.

Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.

意味（10）

Lacking interest, boring.

A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a watergun in order to keep the students' attention.

意味（11）

(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.

意味（12）

(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.

This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.

意味（13）

(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.

意味（14）

(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).

意味（15）

Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.

意味（16）

Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.

意味（17）

(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.