different between dead vs dry

English

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English d?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?d, IPA^(key): /d?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /di?d/

Adjective

dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)

1. (usually not comparable) No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)
   • 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.

   Have respect for the dead.

   The villagers are mourning their dead.

   The dead are always with us, in our hearts.

2. (usually not comparable) Devoid of life.
3. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
4. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

5. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
6. Without emotion.

7. Stationary; static.

8. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

9. Unproductive.

10. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
11. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
12. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.

13. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
    • 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:

      No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.

    • 2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful":

      In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.

14. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.

15. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.

16. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
17. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
18. (not comparable) Full and complete.

19. (not comparable) Exact.

20. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

    After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

21. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

22. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
23. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

24. (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
    • 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:

      He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.

    • 1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:

      But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."

Usage notes

• In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:

1611, King James Bible

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dead

Antonyms

• alive
• living

Translations

Adverb

dead (not comparable)

1. (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.

   dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left

   He hit the target dead in the centre.

2. (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.

   dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty

3. Suddenly and completely.

   He stopped dead.

4. (informal) As if dead.

   dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

   • I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

Translations

Noun

dead (uncountable)

2. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

   The dead of night. The dead of winter.

3. (collective, with the) Those persons who are dead.

Translations

Noun

dead (plural deads)

2. (Britain) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.

Verb

dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)

1. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
   • 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.

     “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”

2. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
3. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

Related terms

• deaden
• deadliness
• deadly
• deadness
• death
• undead

Derived terms

References

• dead at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dade, Edda, adde, dade

French

Etymology

From English dead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?d/

Verb

dead

1. (slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")

Usage notes

The verb is left unconjugated: il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daud.

Cognate with Old Frisian d?d (West Frisian dead), Old Saxon d?d, Dutch dood, Old High German t?t (German tot), Old Norse dauðr (Swedish död), Gothic ???????????????????? (dauþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæ???d/

Adjective

d?ad

1. dead

Declension

Derived terms

• d?adl??
• healfd?ad

Related terms

• d?aþ

Descendants

• Middle English: ded, deed
  • Scots: dede, deed, deid
  • English: dead
  • Yola: deed

See also

• steorfan

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English dead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de?ad]

Noun

dead (nominative plural deads)

1. death, state being dead, state of death

Declension

Derived terms

• ädeadöl
• bludamodeadön
• dadeadön
• deadam
• deadamadel
• deadan
• deadanöp
• deadik
• deadio
• deadöf
• deadöfan
• deadöfik
• deadöl
• deadölan
• deadön
• deid
• deidöl
• deidön
• drakideidan
• drakihideidan
• drakijideidan
• edeadöl
• edeadön
• hideadan
• hideadöfan
• hideadölan
• jideadan
• jideadöfan
• jideadölan
• pedeidöl

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?, IPA^(key): /d?a?/, /d??a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology

Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drü?e, from Old English dr??e (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?giz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er??- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *d?er- (“to hold, support”).

Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.

Verb from Middle English drien, from Old English dr??an (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *dr?gijan, from Proto-Germanic *dr?giz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er??- (“strong, hard, solid”).

Alternative forms

• drie (obsolete)

Adjective

dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)

1. Free from or lacking moisture.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.

3. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
   • 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, p. 241:

     […] already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.

4. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

5. (figuratively) Athirst, eager.
6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfe Night, or What You Will, Act I, Scene v:

     Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
     Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry...

7. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

8. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
   1. (wine and other alcoholic beverages) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.

   2. (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.

   3. Lacking interest, boring.
      • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfe Night, or What You Will, Act I, Scene v:

        Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
        Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry […]

   4. (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
9. (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.

10. (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
11. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
12. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
    • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books (?ISBN), page 81:

      When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]

    • 2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press (?ISBN), page 8:

      Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]

    1. Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
13. (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.

Synonyms

• (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:dry

Antonyms

• (free from liquid or moisture): See Thesaurus:wet
• (abstinent from alcohol): wet
• (not using afterburners or water injection): wet
• (of a scientist or lab: doing computation): wet

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: drei

Translations

Noun

dry (plural drys or dries)

1. The process by which something is dried.

   This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.

2. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
   • c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996

     The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

3. (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter VII, page 91, [1]

     […] 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— […]

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 169:

     [T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.

4. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
5. (Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

   Antonym: wet

Verb

dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)

1. (intransitive) To lose moisture.

   The clothes dried on the line.

2. (transitive) To remove moisture from.

   Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.
   • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:

     And drynke whan þow dryest · ac do nou?t out of resoun.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
5. (intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
   • 1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre (page 146)

     An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”

   • 2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (page 126)

     In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• desiccant
• desiccate
• desiccation

Anagrams

• YRD

Albanian

Alternative forms

• dryn

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dr?na, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskrit ?????? (dru??, “bow”), Persian ?????? (“rainbow”).

Noun

dry m (indefinite plural dryna, definite singular dryni, definite plural drynat)

1. lock, bolt

Declension

Related terms

• dru
• drushtë
• ndryj

References

Middle English

Adjective

dry

1. Alternative form of drye

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dry?/

Noun

dr? m

1. a sorcerer or magician

Derived terms

• dr?cræft
• dr?ecge

Descendants

• Middle English: dri, dri?, dry
  • ? Middle English: dri?mann, dri?menn pl

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dr??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /dri?/

Verb

dry

1. Soft mutation of try.

Mutation