DRYadj

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  computingengineeringmathematicsOf code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.

DRYverb

• 1

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.

Dryname

• 1

  A surname.

dryadj/ˈdɹaɪ̯/

• 1

  Free from or lacking moisture.

  • This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
  • The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
• 2

  Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.

  • This well is as dry as that cow.
• 3

  businessconstructionmanufacturingBuilt without or lacking mortar.

  • [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
• 4

  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAnhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

  • Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
• 5

  Athirst, eager.

  • Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
• 6

  Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

  • Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
  • Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest. Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry[…]
• 7

  lawDescribing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

  • You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
• 8

  Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly

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

drynoun/ˈdɹaɪ̯/

• 1

  The process by which something is dried.

  • This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
• 2

  A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

  • The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
• 3

  An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.

  • Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
• 4

  The dry season.

  • […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
  • [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
• 5

  An area of waterless country.

• 6

  Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.

  • All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
  • Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
• 7

  governmentpoliticsA radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

dryverb/ˈdɹaɪ̯/

• 1

  To lose moisture.

  • The clothes dried on the line.
  • The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
• 2

  To remove moisture from.

  • Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
  • We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
• 3

  To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

• 4

  informalentertainmentlifestyletheaterFor an actor to forget their lines while performing.

  • An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
  • In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• don't repeat yourself