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Undry vs Unary - What's the difference?

undry | unary |

As adjectives the difference between undry and unary

is that undry is (rare) not dry while unary is consisting of or involving a single element or component.

As a verb undry

is (rare|transitive) to cause (something) to be not dry.

As a noun unary is

(mathematics) the unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.

undry

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (rare) Not dry.
  • * 1920 , A. Ashmun Kelly, The Expert Paint Mixer , page 145 [http://google.com/books?id=kjwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA145&dq=undry]:
    • 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.
  • * 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]:
    • His clothes were only a little damp, despite the undry weather.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (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]:
    • As we continued to "undry the throat" with a Cognac de guerre , Claudine suddenly interrupted.
  • * 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]:
    • 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) .

    Quotations

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    See also

    * undried (pos a) * undry'd (pos a)

    unary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
  • (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or input; having domain of dimension 1.
    • Negation is a unary operation.

    Noun

    (unaries)
  • (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
  • (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

    • Coordinate terms

    * binary * ternary