| 单词 | dry |
| 释义 | dry (once / 54 pages) 1adjv 2adj 3adjn 4adj 5adj 6adj Things that are dry lack moisture. A desert or a dessert can be dry. If your eyes are dry, you’ve stopped crying. It’s also a flavor that means the opposite of sweet. The Sahara Desert and crumbly chocolate cake are both dry. Dry is also a verb — when you paint your kitchen, you have to wait for the first coat to dry before you can add another. If someone says you have a dry sense of humor, they mean that you have a subtle style, keeping a straight face even when you say something outrageous. WORD FAMILYdry: dried, drier, dries, driest, drily, dryed, dryer, dryest, drying, dryly, dryness, drys, semi-dry+/dried: undried/drier: driers/dryer: dryers/dryness: drynesses USAGE EXAMPLES“So remove dry cleaning bags and hang only one item per hanger.” New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) The general rule of thumb is that areas which are currently dry will become more dry. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) They say the contract was awarded competitively and will pay for replacement of part of dry dock number 3 at the shipyard. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet dry land dry clothes a dry climate dry splintery boards a dry river bed the paint is dry Syn|Ant adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight air-driedmade dry by contact with unheated air air-drynot giving off moisture on exposure to the air arid, waterlesslacking sufficient water or rainfall bone dry, bone-drywithout a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone desiccated, dried-outthoroughly dried out driednot still wet dried-updepleted of water dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture dry-shodhaving or keeping the feet or shoes dry kiln-drieddried in a kiln rainlesslacking rain semiaridsomewhat arid semi-drysomewhat dry thirstyneeding moisture wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water bedewed, dewywet with dew besprentsprinkled over boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged(of soil) soft and watery clammy, dankunpleasantly cool and humid damp, dampish, moistslightly wet sodden, soppywet through and through; thoroughly wet drippy, drizzlywet with light rain humidcontaining or characterized by a great deal of water vapor mistywet with mist muggy, steamy, stickyhot or warm and humid reeking, waterywet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears rheumymoist, damp, wet (especially of air) sloppywet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material rainy, showery(of weather) wet by periods of rain steaming, steamyfilled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist stickymoist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body tacky(of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch undriedstill wet or moist washedwet as from washing; sometimes used in combination wateryfilled with water 2adj lacking moisture or volatile components dry paint Ant wet containing moisture or volatile components 3adj not producing milk a dry cow Syn|Ant milkless having no milk lactating, wet producing or secreting milk freshhaving recently calved and therefore able to give milk 4adj without a mucous or watery discharge a dry cough a small child with a dry nose Ant phlegmy characterized by phlegm 5adj not shedding tears dry sobs with dry eyes Syn dry-eyed, tearless free from tears 6adj used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones dry weight Syn solid of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous 7adj (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish dry toast dry meat Syn plain not elaborate or elaborated; simple 8v remove the moisture from and make dry dry clothes dry hair Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dry out wet cause to become wet dehydrate, desiccate, dry up, exsiccate lose water or moisture dehydrate, desiccateremove water from spin-drydry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces tumble drydry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder spray-drydry by bringing into the form of a spray, through contact with a hot gas dehumidifymake less humid parch, searcause to wither or parch from exposure to heat rough-drydry without smoothing or ironing blow-drydry hair with a hair dryer drip-drydry by hanging up wet airexpose to warm or heated air, so as to dry alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 9v become dry or drier 2The laundry dries in the sun Syn|Hypo|Hyper dry out scorch become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions dry out, run drybecome empty of water change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 1adj lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless a dry book a dry lecture filled with trivial details Syn juiceless unexciting, unstimulating not stimulating 2adj lacking warmth or emotional involvement a dry greeting a dry reading of the lines a dry critique Syn unemotional unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion 3adj having no adornment or coloration dry facts rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner Syn plain not elaborate or elaborated; simple 4adj unproductive especially of the expected results 3a dry run a mind dry of new ideas Syn unproductive not producing or capable of producing 1adj opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers a dry state Ant wet supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages 2adj practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages he's been dry for ten years Syn teetotal sober not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) 3n a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages 4Syn|Exp|Hyper prohibitionist Carry Amelia Moore Nation United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) Frances Elizabeth Caroline WillardUnited States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898) crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer a disputant who advocates reform adj (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation 5a dry white burgundy a dry Bordeaux Syn|Ant nonsweet, sugarless not containing sugar brut(of champagne) extremely dry medium-dryof a wine that is dry but not extremely dry sec, unsweet(of champagne) moderately dry sourhaving a sharp biting taste sweet (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content sugarycontaining sugar sweethaving or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar adj having a large proportion of strong liquor 6a very dry martini is almost straight gin Syn alcoholic characteristic of or containing alcohol adj humorously sarcastic or mocking dry humor Syn ironic, ironical, wry humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor |
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