dry run

Meaning

A practice or rehearsal; especially, one that goes through all the motions of a physical process but without the raw material or workpiece present.

Translations

Probelauf

Trockentest

δοκιμή

πρόβα

essai à blanc

إطلاق النار بلا بارود؛ عملية تجريبية

Etymology

From dry (“impotent; harmless”) + run. First attested in print in 1941, but apparently much older in spoken English.

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