Warm vs Dry - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between warm and dry

is that warm is to make or keep warm while dry is to remove moisture from.

In intransitive terms the difference between warm and dry

is that warm is to favour increasingly while dry is to lose moisture.

As a noun warm

is the act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

As an acronym DRY is

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warm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:

(etyl) .

The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots. The term is cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m) and (etyl)/(etyl) (m).

Adjective

(er)

Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

The tea is still warm .

This is a very warm room.

* Longfellow

Warm and still is the summer night.

* 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star

It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.

Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

We have a warm friendship .

Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.

* Black

Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.

(archaic) Ardent, zealous.

a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

* Milton

Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

* Alexander Pope

Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

* Addison

They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.

* Hawthorne

I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

* 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Chapter 1

To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

(archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.

* Washington Irving

warm householders, every one of them

* Goldsmith

You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Antonyms

* (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen * (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen

Derived terms

* * lukewarm * warmhearted/warm-hearted * warmish * warmly * warm up / warm-up

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m).

Verb

(en verb)

To make or keep .

* Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15

Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

* Longfellow

enough to warm , but not enough to burn

To become warm, to heat up.

The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

To favour increasingly.

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To become ardent or animated.

The speaker warms as he proceeds.

To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

* Alexander Pope

I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

* Keble

Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .

Derived terms

* like death warmed over

Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

(Dickens)

Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

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dry

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from liquid or moisture.

* Addison

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.

* Prescott

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.

Thirsty; needing drink.

* (William Shakespeare)

Give the dry fool drink.

(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)

He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.

(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.

(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.

(of animals) Not giving milk.

Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.

* (Alexander Pope)

These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.

(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.

Synonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parched

Antonyms

* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wet

Derived 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 dry

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

To lose moisture.

The clothes dried on the line.

To remove moisture from.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.

Their sources of income dried up.

The stream of chatter dried up.

Derived terms

* drier * dryer * dry out * dry up * nondrying