dryer
Meaning
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- One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
- A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
- An electric hair dryer.
- Any other device or facility, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
- A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
Synonyms
drying apparatus
tumble-dryer
drying house
mechanical drier
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɹaɪɚ/
Etymology
From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry + -er (agent noun suffix).
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dry
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- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- Built without or lacking mortar.
- Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
- Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
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