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How to pronounce “dry”
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Pronunciation guide for dry
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of dry with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Antarctica Mountains Science
around Ross Island and the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
- Definition summary
- Free from or lacking moisture.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce dry
Antarctica Mountains Science
around Ross Island and the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “dry”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- [Noun]
- The process by which something is dried.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
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