Dry vs Undry - What's the difference?
dry | undry |
Free from liquid or moisture.
* Addison
* Prescott
(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.
Thirsty; needing drink.
* (William Shakespeare)
(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
* (Washington Irving)
(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.
(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.
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(of animals) Not giving milk.
Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.
* (Alexander Pope)
(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.
To lose moisture.
To remove moisture from.
(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.
(rare) Not dry.
* 1920 , A. Ashmun Kelly, The Expert Paint Mixer , page 145 [http://google.com/books?id=kjwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA145&dq=undry]:
* 2005 , , "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan", in Music Through the Floor , 2007 Scribner edition, ISBN 0743270479, page 43 [http://google.com/books?id=nL-As-xR49oC&pg=PA43&dq=undry]:
(rare) To cause (something) to be not dry.
* 1947 , George Bijur, "Chicken Demi-Deuil", reprinted in, 2004, , 2005 edition, ISBN 0812971930, page 21 [http://google.com/books?id=rCQQ2ZSijUkC&pg=PA21&dq=undry]:
* 1997 March 27, "young lion" <anon-12967@anon.twwells.com>, "re:hair and nails", message-ID <5hems8$2be@twwells.com>, alt.support.eating-disord , Usenet [http://google.com/group/alt.support.eating-disord/msg/077282b1c2badbfa]:
As adjectives the difference between dry and undry
is that dry is free from liquid or moisture while undry is not dry.As verbs the difference between dry and undry
is that dry is to lose moisture while undry is to cause (something) to be not dry.As an acronym DRY
is acronym of w:Don't repeat yourself|don't repeat yourself|lang=en It is a software development principle aimed at reducing repetition.dry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Give the dry fool drink.
- He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.
- These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.
Synonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parchedAntonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wetDerived terms
* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dryEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- The clothes dried on the line.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- Their sources of income dried up.
- The stream of chatter dried up.
Derived terms
* drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondryingSee also
* desiccant * desiccate * desiccationundry
English
Adjective
(head)- If paint is applied and is undry when evening comes, the frosty air of night may destroy the gloss and make the surface paint very unsightly.
- His clothes were only a little damp, despite the undry weather.
Verb
(head)- As we continued to "undry the throat" with a Cognac de guerre , Claudine suddenly interrupted.
- to give you even more bad news, you may need fat in your diet to undry your hair. your body produces oil to moisturize your hair. it needs fat to manufacture these( fatty acid deficiencies in animals produce a dry, rough haircoat) .