Free from or lacking moisture.
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
This well is as dry as that cow.
Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
The process by which something is dried.
This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
To lose moisture.
The clothes dried on the line.
Acronym of don't repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing repetition”).
The general principle here is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself (HTOO). If you duplicate information in two or more places, sooner or later, you'll forget to update one of the copies […]
A surname.
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, har...
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An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.