dry

dry

englanti
  1. (myös kuvaannollisesti) kuiva

  2. sellainen, jossa on alkoholin vähittäismyyntikielto (kunnasta, piirikunnasta); missä alkoholi on kiellettyä

Esimerkkejä:

dry county

a dry halfway house

Liittyvät sanat: dryer

Synonyymisanakirja

dry

humoristinen, huvittava, kuiva, ironinen, yksinkertainen, paljas, tuottamaton, tyhjä.

Rimmaavat sanat

dry rimmaa näiden kanssa:

henry, sherry, sorry, curry, kärry, ostoskärry, peräkärry, country, jury, treasury...

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Englannin sanakirja

dry (englanti > suomi)

  1. kuiva

  2. kuiva, vedetön, absoluuttinen alcohol

  3. kuivua, kuivaa

  4. kuivata, kuivattaa

dry englanniksi

  1. free Free from or lacking moisture.

  2. (ux)

  3. Addison

  4. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
  5. Prescott

  6. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
  7. unable Unable to produce a liquid, as water, puhekieltä oil, or puhekieltä milk.

  8. puhekieltä built Built without or lacking mortar.

  9. 1937, (w), (w), p. 241:

  10. ...already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
  11. puhekieltä anhydrous Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

  12. free Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

  13. (c.) (w), w:Twelfth Night|Twelfe Night, or What You Will, http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/doc/TN_F1/scene/1.5/ Act I, Scene v:

  14. Olivia Ol. Go too, you y'are a dry foole: I'll|le no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
    clown Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell will wil amend: for give giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry...
  15. puhekieltä describing Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

  16. free Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:

  17. (w)

  18. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
  19. puhekieltä low Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.

  20. puhekieltä amusing Amusing without being amused.

  21. Lacking interest, boring.

  22. Olivia Ol. Go too, you y'are a dry foole: I'll|le no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
    clown Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell will wil amend: for give giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry...
  23. puhekieltä exhibit Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.

  24. puhekieltä involving Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.

  25. puhekieltä A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

  26. Noah S. Sweat, Jr.

  27. The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
  28. puhekieltä The dry season.

  29. 1938, w:Xavier Herbert|Xavier Herbert, w:Capricornia (novel)|Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, https://archive.org/details/capricornianovel00herb

  30. (..) one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray (..) for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— (..)
  31. puhekieltä An area of waterless country.

  32. puhekieltä To lose moisture.

  33. The clothes dried on the line.

  34. puhekieltä To remove moisture from.

  35. Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

  36. puhekieltä To be thirsty.

  37. c. 1390, (w), Piers Plowman, I:

  38. And drynke whan þow dryest · ac do nouȝt out of resoun.
  39. kind of lock, bolt

  40. a sorcerer or magician

  41. ''Hi woldon forbærnan ðone dry. —Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1. (‘They would burn the sorceror.’)

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