Found 4 items, similar to Drying.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: dry kering
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: dry gersang, kering, membeku
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dry dry n : a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages [syn: prohibitionist] [also: dried, dryest, dryer, driest, drier] dry v 1: remove the moisture from and make dry; “dry clothes”; “dry hair” [syn: dry out] [ant: wet] 2: become dry or drier; “The laundry dries in the sun” [syn: dry out ] [also: dried, dryest, dryer, driest, drier] dry adj 1: 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” [ant: wet] 2: humorously sarcastic or mocking; “dry humor”; “an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely”; “an ironic novel”; “an ironical smile”; “with a wry Scottish wit” [syn: ironic, ironical, wry] 3: opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; “the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers”; “a dry state” [ant: wet] 4: not producing milk; “a dry cow” [ant: wet] 5: (of wines) not sweet because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; “a dry white burgundy” [ant: sweet] 6: without a mucous or watery discharge; “a dry cough”; “that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose” [ant: phlegmy] 7: not shedding tears; “dry sobs”; “with dry eyes” 8: lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; “a dry book”; “a dry lecture filled with trivial details”; “dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life”- John Mason Brown [syn: juiceless] 9: used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; “dry weight” 10: unproductive especially of the expected results; “a dry run”; “a mind dry of new ideas” 11: having no adornment or coloration; “dry facts”; “rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner” 12: (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; “dry toast”; “dry meat” 13: suffering from fluid deprivation; “his mouth was dry” 14: having a large proportion of strong liquor; “a very dry martini is almost straight gin” 15: lacking warmth or emotional involvement; “a dry greeting”; “a dry reading of the lines”; “a dry critique” 16: practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; “he's been dry for ten years”; “no thank you; I happen to be teetotal” [syn: teetotal] [also: dried, dryest, dryer, driest, drier]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Drying Drying \Dry"ing\, a. 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. [1913 Webster] 2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. [1913 Webster] Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes. [1913 Webster] Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. [1913 Webster] To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. [1913 Webster] Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13. [1913 Webster] The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. --Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. [1913 Webster] Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. ) To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]