dry ing
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Free from or lacking moisture.
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Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
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(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
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(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
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(figurative) Athirst, eager.
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Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
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(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
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Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
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(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
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(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
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Lacking interest, boring.
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(poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
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(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
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(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
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(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
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(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
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Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
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Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
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In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
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(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
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(Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
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(software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
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The process by which something is dried.
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(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
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An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
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(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
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(Australia) An area of waterless country.
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Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
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(British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
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A surname.
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(intransitive) To lose moisture.
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(transitive) To remove moisture from.
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(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
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(intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
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(software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
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