different between undry vs unary

English

Etymology

un- +? dry

Adjective

undry

1. (rare) Not dry.
   • 1920, A. Ashmun Kelly, The Expert Paint Mixer, page 145 [1]:

     If paint is applied and is undry when evening comes, the frosty air of night may destroy the gloss and make the surface paint very unsightly.

   • 2005, Eric Puchner, "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan", in Music Through the Floor, 2007 Scribner edition, ?ISBN, page 43 [2]:

     His clothes were only a little damp, despite the undry weather.

Verb

undry

1. (rare, transitive) To cause (something) to be not dry.
   • 1947, George Bijur, "Chicken Demi-Deuil", reprinted in, 2004, Ruth Reichl, editor, Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, 2005 edition, ?ISBN, page 21 [3]:

     As we continued to "undry the throat" with a Cognac de guerre, Claudine suddenly interrupted.

   • 1997 March 27, "young lion" <[email protected]>, "re:hair and nails", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.support.eating-disord, Usenet [4]:

     to give you even more bad news, you may need fat in your diet to undry your hair. your body produces oil to moisturize your hair. it needs fat to manufacture these( fatty acid deficiencies in animals produce a dry, rough haircoat) .

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:undry.

See also

• undried (adjective)
• undry'd (adjective)

Anagrams

• nurdy

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nus (“one”) + -ary, on the pattern of binary, ternary, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?n??i/

Adjective

unary (not comparable)

1. Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
2. (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

   Negation is a unary operation.

Translations

Noun

unary (plural unaries)

1. (mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
2. (information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.

Coordinate terms

• binary
• ternary

Anagrams

• anury