"dryer" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/ [General-American], [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ] [General-American], /ˈdɹaɪə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-dryer.wav [US]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: dry + -er (comparative suffix) Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dry|er|id2=comparative|pos2=comparative suffix}} dry + -er (comparative suffix) Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} dryer
  1. (US) comparative form of dry: more dry Tags: US, comparative, form-of Form of: dry (extra: more dry)
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-adj-X~rxrW2w Categories (other): American English, English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 25 7 22 19 18 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drier
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/ [General-American], [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ] [General-American], /ˈdɹaɪə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-dryer.wav [US] Forms: dryers [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry + -er (agent noun suffix). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|driere}} Middle English driere, {{m|enm|dreyere|t=one who dries}} dreyere (“one who dries”), {{suf|en|dry|er|id2=agent noun|pos2=agent noun suffix}} dry + -er (agent noun suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dryer (plural dryers)
  1. One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-noun-iHZ2yhwd
  2. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion. Categories (topical): Home appliances, Laundry Synonyms (household appliance for drying clothing): clothes dryer, tumble dryer Translations (household appliance for drying clothing): quruducu (Azerbaijani), суши́лня (sušílnja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), assecadora [feminine] (Catalan), 烘乾機 (Chinese Mandarin), 烘干机 (hōnggānjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 乾衣機 (Chinese Mandarin), 干衣机 (gānyījī) (Chinese Mandarin), sušička [feminine] (Czech), tørretumbler [common-gender] (Danish), droger (Dutch), kuivuri (Finnish), kuivain (Finnish), kuivausrumpu (Finnish), sèche-linge [masculine] (French), sécheuse [feminine] (French), საშრობი (sašrobi) (Georgian), Wäschetrockner [masculine] (German), Trockner [masculine] (German), מייבש כביסה (meyabésh k'visá) [masculine] (Hebrew), þurrkari [masculine] (Icelandic), triomadóir [masculine] (Irish), essiccatoio [masculine] (Italian), 衣類乾燥機 (irui kansōki) (alt: いるいかんそうき) (Japanese), 乾燥機 (kansōki) (alt: かんそうき) (Japanese), 빨래 건조기 (ppallae geonjogi) (Korean), 건조기 (geonjogi) (Korean), хатаагч (xataagč) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠬᠠᠲᠠᠭᠠᠭᠴᠢ (qataɣaɣči) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), s'tcheux [masculine] (Norman), tørketrommel [masculine] (Norwegian), suszarka [feminine] (Polish), secadora [feminine] (Portuguese), суши́льная маши́на (sušílʹnaja mašína) [feminine] (Russian), суши́лка (sušílka) (alt: для белья́) [feminine] (Russian), sušilo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), sušilica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sušionik [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), secadora [feminine] (Spanish), torktumlare [common-gender] (Swedish), patuyuan (Tagalog), དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor) (Tibetan), kurutucu (Turkish), kurutma makinesi (Turkish), суша́рка (sušárka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), qurituvchi (Uzbek), sychwr [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-noun-aPl6Ontq Disambiguation of Home appliances: 3 5 42 23 20 7 Disambiguation of Laundry: 9 9 31 9 21 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 8 32 36 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 8 29 28 26 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 25 7 22 19 18 9 Disambiguation of 'household appliance for drying clothing': 4 67 14 10 5 Disambiguation of 'household appliance for drying clothing': 4 67 14 10 5
  3. An electric hair dryer.
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-noun-W9No5Yd4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 8 32 36 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 8 29 28 26 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 25 7 22 19 18 9
  4. Any other device or facility, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity. Hyponyms (other drying device): dehumidifier Translations (any device that removes humidity): sekigilo (Esperanto), secador [masculine] (Portuguese), secador [masculine] (Spanish), secadora [feminine] (Spanish), སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skam yag 'phrul 'khor) (Tibetan)
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-noun-Smx5lPdI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 8 32 36 11 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 8 29 28 26 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 25 7 22 19 18 9 Disambiguation of 'other drying device': 4 17 2 63 14 Disambiguation of 'any device that removes humidity': 4 24 9 60 3
  5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
    Sense id: en-dryer-en-noun-Dkrt4eI9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drier Derived forms: blow dryer, blow-dryer, dryer sheet, hair-dryer, hand dryer, jet dryer, spin dryer, tumbler dryer, washer-dryer
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
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          "word": "དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར"
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      "word": "烘乾機"
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      "word": "საშრობი"
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      "word": "乾燥機"
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      "word": "빨래 건조기"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pt",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "суши́льная маши́на"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "roman": "dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor",
      "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
      "word": "དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར"
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      "code": "tr",
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sušárka",
      "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "суша́рка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
      "word": "qurituvchi"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "household appliance for drying clothing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sychwr"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any device that removes humidity",
      "word": "sekigilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "any device that removes humidity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "secador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any device that removes humidity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "secador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any device that removes humidity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "secadora"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "skam yag 'phrul 'khor",
      "sense": "any device that removes humidity",
      "word": "སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dryer"
  ],
  "word": "dryer"
}

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    "English agent nouns",
    "English comparative adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪə(ɹ)",
    "en:Home appliances",
    "en:Laundry"
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "dry",
        "3": "er",
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        "pos2": "comparative suffix"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
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  "etymology_text": "dry + -er (comparative suffix)",
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        "2": "comparative adjective"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English comparative adjectives"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more dry",
          "word": "dry"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of dry: more dry"
      ],
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        "(US) comparative form of dry: more dry"
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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      "ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɹaɪə/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-dryer.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-dryer.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "drier"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dryer"
  ],
  "word": "dryer"
}

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