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drier Definition

drier (drīər)

noun

  1. a substance added to paint, varnish, etc. to make it dry fast
  2. dryer

adjective

drier Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • wash: A fully equipped kitchen with oven, fridge/freezer, washing machine/tumble drier, microwave.
  • become: The lowland plain becomes drier to the south, with almost year round drought near the Argentine border.
  • get: The crawl didn't get any drier, in fact in places there was a distinct lack of air.
  • use: The drying can be made quicker using a hot air drier.

Preposition: in

  • room: There was a washing machine and tumble drier in the laundry room on the ground floor.

Adjective modifier

  • machine/tumble: A fully equipped kitchen with oven, fridge/freezer, washing machine/tumble drier, microwave.
  • rotary: There is an outdoor drying area with rotary drier.
  • solar: They are finely sliced and dried in solar driers and are 100 % sugar and sulfur free.
  • electric: On average, electric drive driers carry a £ 500 to £ 1000 premium.
  • hot: The hot air hand drier - Satan's joke against people with wet hands.
  • much: The northern sides of islands are more sheltered and much drier than the south eastern sides.

Modifies a noun

  • summer: Many plants will be more prone to disease and drier summers will cause havoc for our fine green lawns.
  • condition: The drier conditions meant that in contrast to the morning, their notes were now working much better.
  • area: These allow a few plants belonging to species normally characteristic of much drier areas to survive.

Noun used with modifier

  • tumble: The washing machine & tumble drier are housed in a separate utility room.
  • scrubber: Online sales of chewing gum removal carts, steam cleaners, pressure washers, floor scrubber driers, sweepers, generators.
  • washer: The washer drier is located in the boiler room.
  • spin: Lester showed us a slide of his spin drier in action spinning out heather honey.
  • grain: From the late fifties the mill was used just for rearing pigs, garaging farm machinery, and housing the grain drier.
  • batch: A 12 ton OPICO batch drier should remove around 5 % moisture from 6 tons of wheat in an hour.

Browse dictionary entries near drier

  1. driegh
  2. dried
  3. driblet
  4. dribbling
  5. dribbler
  6. dribbled
  7. dribble
  8. dribbing
  9. dribbed
  10. drib
  1. driest
  2. drift
  3. drift anchor
  4. driftage
  5. drifter
  6. driftier
  7. driftiest
  8. driftwood
  9. drifty
  10. drill