drier

«drier» in Mova's school dictionary: the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (dry, drier, driest); noun (a drier, driers — also dryer)

meaning for a pupil

1) Drier is the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than something else. tree →

2) A drier (often spelled dryer) is a machine that dries things, like a clothes dryer or a hair dryer. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography, deserts are drier than rainforests; pupils compare how quickly things dry. In everyday life, clothes go in the dryer. Phrases: drier than, a tumble dryer, hair dryer.

examples

• The desert is drier than the jungle. tree →
• My towel is drier than yours. tree →
• This summer was drier than last summer. tree →
• Put the wet clothes in the dryer. tree →
• Today is drier, so we can play outside. tree →
• Which cloth is drier after five minutes in the sun? tree →

note

Spelling: dry, drier, driest for the adjective (y changes to i). For the machine, dryer is more common, but drier is also correct. Hair dryers and water don't mix: never use one near a bath or sink.

In the corpora

• Toads walk more than they hop and have drier, bumpier skin than frogs.
• Of course, nobody gets any drier.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drier» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.