Crossword clues for dryer
dryer
- Load-bearing machine
- Laundry finisher
- Vented appliance
- Spin zone?
- Salon device
- Salon blower
- Moisture remover
- Laundry apparatus
- Laundromat sight
- Hot-air machine
- Bounce setting
- Beauty-parlor gear
- Where some pairs are separated
- Where clothes may go after the washer
- Washroom appliance, often
- Washroom appliance
- Washer go-with
- Washday device
- Utility-room machine
- Utility room machine
- TV's Hunter
- Tumbling locale
- Static source
- Sock scrambler
- Sock collector?
- Site for fabric softener
- Salon sight
- Moisture-extracting machine
- Machine next to a washer
- Machine in a laundromat
- Load bearer at home
- Line alternative
- Laundry tumbler
- Laundromat item
- Laundromat apparatus
- Launderette purchase
- It might be attached to a washer
- It may "eat" a sock
- It has a gentle setting
- Hot-air source
- Hot air source
- Hair-salon staple
- Hair styling appliance
- Dorm appliance
- Domestic sock eater?
- Device with a tumbler
- Appliance with an "air fluff" setting
- Appliance with a vent
- Appliance with a lint trap
- Appliance next to a washer
- Appliance in the basement
- Appliance in many basements
- Appliance for two kinds of sheets
- Appliance blamed for missing socks
- Laundromat appliance
- Beautician's device
- Clothesline alternative
- Utility room item
- Salon apparatus
- Washer's partner
- Salon fixture
- Kenmore product
- Place for a tumbler
- Load bearer?
- Salon appliance
- Alternative to a clothesline
- Whirlpool product
- 53-Down product
- Lacking interest or stimulation
- Dull and lifeless
- Used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- Unproductive especially of the expected results
- Having no adornment or coloration
- Suffering from fluid deprivation
- Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- Lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- Lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water
- Not shedding tears
- Free from liquid or moisture
- Having a large proportion of strong liquor
- Or no longer wet
- An appliance that removes moisture
- Humorously sarcastic or mocking
- Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- Not producing milk
- (of wines) not sweet because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- Without a mucous or watery discharge
- Beautician's purchase
- He's Hunter on TV
- Modern appliance
- One of a laundry duo
- Coiffeuse's appliance
- Hair-set aid
- Laundry appliance
- Tumbler
- Where clothes spin
- Doctor drinking whisky in tumbler?
- Lint collector
- Laundromat fixture
- Salon item
- It's full of hot air
- Laundry machine
- Washer's companion
- Major appliance
- Laundromat machine
- Washer companion
- One full of hot air
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dryer \Dry"er\, n.
See Drier.
--Sir W. Temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agent noun from dry (v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. 2 An electric hair dryer. 3 Any other device, household or industrial, designed to remove water, or humidity. Etymology 2
a. (context US English) (alternative spelling of drier English)
WordNet
n. an appliance that removes moisture [syn: drier]
adj. free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry" [ant: wet]
humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: ironic, ironical, wry]
opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state" [ant: wet]
not producing milk; "a dry cow" [ant: wet]
(of wines) not sweet because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy" [ant: sweet]
without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose" [ant: phlegmy]
not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes"
lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown [syn: juiceless]
used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight"
unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas"
having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"
(of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat"
suffering from fluid deprivation; "his mouth was dry"
having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin"
lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique"
practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal" [syn: teetotal]
See dry
Wikipedia
A dryer (or drier) can mean:
- Hair dryer
- Hand dryer
- Clothes dryer, also known as a tumble-dryer
- Belt dryer
- Cereal dryer, for food preservation
- Desiccant, a substance that absorbs or adsorbs water
- Grain dryer for storage grain bins
- Oil drying agent, an additive which accelerates the film formation of a drying oil
Dryer is an American rock 'n' roll band from Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. Formed in 1992, the three members of the band are Bob Carlton (guitar, vocals), Joel Lilley (drums, vocals), and Rachael Sunday (bass, vocals). The trio was active in their current lineup from 1993 until 2002. They reunited in 2010 and played shows in and around the Northeast until taking time off in 2012. Now in 2014, the band is back as a four piece with the addition of Brian Akey (formerly of The Winterpills) on guitar.
Dryer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Fred Dryer, American pro football player and actor
- Ivan Dryer, Designer of laser light shows
- Moosie Drier, American actor
- Sally Dryer, American voice actress from the 1960s
- Thomas J. Dryer, 19th-century American newspaper publisher
- James R. Dryer, Politician, Airline Pilot, Military Veteran, Golf Historian
Usage examples of "dryer".
We followed the other buses over a bridge and into a bleaker landscape, dryer, stonier, with less vegetation, just scattered thorn-bushes for the most part, dotted across low but steep and irregular hills.
On all the house there is a cold, blank smell like the smell of a little church, though something dryer, suggesting that the dead and buried Dedlocks walk there in the long nights and leave the flavour of their graves behind them.
The laundress was taking things out of the washing machine and stuffing them in the dryer.
Colonel Weiz, of course, looking very handsome in his full-dress uniform, and she knew Onregon Sligh, the chief of Research and Development, the man who made the electric hair dryer possible.
I tossed the jacket and a sheet of fabric softener into the dryer and let it run while I tackled the Augean Labor of choosing a shirt and slacks.
Comb and scissors are standard tools in taxidermy, and of course blow dryers.
She found herself looking around the newsroom, at the paste up tables at the far end, at the printer, waxer, and dryer, and she realized for the first time how truly sick she was of this place.
One of her fellow students cha3 to be Richard Dryer, the son of a prominent banket Montana.
I had chastised Lucy in every manner, playfully, pedantically, paternally, militarily, passionately, dispassionately, and in every tempo, allegro, largo, andante, di minuetto, with every paddle, strap, pliant rod, and whip in every room in my house, as she presented her fanny, bared or lightly covered, while lying across my knees, kneeling on beds, couches, chairs, footstools, or as she crawled upstairs, for one smack of my belt on each step, or bending over tables, desks, sinks, tubs, toilets, kitchen work surfaces, washing machine and dryer, followed by all the permutations of sensual penetration.
She had had the foresight to bring with her an adaptor plug for her hair dryer and later she blamed the noise the dryer was making for masking the sound of anyone knocking on her door.
A bank of dryers faced them on the opposite side of the room, and in between were several long counters that held stacks and stacks of folded white sheets and towels.
The first practical hair dryer -- a behemoth weighing nearly six stones and standing ten hands high -- was the lifework of Rapunzel Shoat of Bleeding Oaks, California.
Only a monopoly would have bathrooms that still employ those ridiculous Potemkin hand dryers in lieu of something that might possibly dry your hands .
It was full of the stuff that usually clutters bathrooms: hair dryers, hot curlers, deodorant, shampoo, styling gel.
It was warmer, yet the air was much dryer, a desertlike feeling to it, and overhead, quite suddenly, the sky was clear and well-lit.