dry

1. dry (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Free from or lacking moisture.

Example: This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?

Concept: Засуха

Polarities of the concept

2. dry (adj) — sense 2

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

Example: This well is as dry as that cow.

3. dry (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Built without or lacking mortar.

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

4. dry (noun) — sense 4

Definition: The process by which something is dried.

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

5. dry (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

Example: The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

6. dry (noun) — sense 6

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

Example: Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.

7. dry (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To lose moisture.

Example: The clothes dried on the line.

8. dry (verb) — sense 8

Definition: To remove moisture from.

Example: Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

9. dry (verb) — sense 9

Definition: To exhaust; to cause to run dry.