dry

«dry» in Mova's school dictionary: Not wet; with no water: "dry clothes" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (dry, drier/dryer, driest); verb (dry, dries, dried, drying)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not wet; with no water: "dry clothes". tree →

2) With little or no rain: "a dry summer". tree →

3) Thirsty: "My mouth is dry." tree →

4) Boring: "a dry book". tree →

5) Funny in a quiet, serious way: "dry humour". tree →

6) As a verb, to make or become dry. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, things dry when water evaporates into the air; heat and wind make things dry faster; deserts are dry places. In everyday life: dry your hands after washing; dry grass catches fire easily. Phrases: dry up, dry off, blow-dry, dry land, high and dry.

examples

• Dry your hands on the towel. tree →
• The desert is hot and dry. tree →
• The washing dried in the sun. tree →
• My throat is dry; I need water. tree →
• The river dried up in summer. tree →
• Dry grass burns easily. tree →
• Keep your feet dry in winter. tree →
• We were happy to reach dry land. tree →
• My throat is dry and burning. tree →

note

He/she form: "dries"; past "dried" (y → ie). "Dryer" is also a machine for drying. Opposite: wet. A dry place for a fire can still be dangerous.

In the corpora

• One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.
• Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.
• Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.
• A warm dry nose does not always mean a dog is ill; that is an old myth.
• Honey hardly ever goes off, because it is so sugary and dry that germs cannot grow in it.

Trees and pragmatics

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