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Definition: DRYING |
DRYINGAdjective1. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. 2. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dry |
Date "DRYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | The lowering of the water content of the solid product by evaporation or vaporization. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Changing the physical state of an adhesive(as on an adherend)by the loss of solvent constituents through evaporation and/or absorption. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Process of change of a coating after application to the final solid state. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Natural or artificial reduction of the water content. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The removal of water from any substance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water, which is required for decay and the growth of microorganisms. Water is usually removed by evaporation (air drying, sun drying, smoking or wind drying) but, in the case of freeze-drying, food is first frozen and then water is removed by sublimation.Many different foods are prepared by drying, including Parma ham, beef jerky, and fruits that normally have a high water content, such as prunes, raisins, figs, and dates.
Dried and salted reindeer meat is a traditional Lappish food. First the meat is soused. It is kept in saltwater for a couple of days to guarantee the conservation of the meat. Then the meat is dried in the sun in spring when the air temperature is below zero. The dried meat can be further processed to make soup.
See also: food preservation, freeze-drying, dehydration
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drying (food)."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Dessicator; hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier; vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln; lyophilizer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Paint drying or math (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Lyrics | Drying up forever (It's all coming back to me now; performing artist: Celine Dion) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Drying Up the Streets (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | An older woman stands in a yellow bathroom between a shower and a window, wrapped in a blue towel, drying off. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | "After drying engine, truck pulled out with no trouble" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fish nets and drying fish at Kotzebue. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cormorants drying their wings on old steamboat landing piles. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Drying seal meat. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Chesapeake Bay skipjacks drying sails while inport. These vessels are sail powered oyster dredgers. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A shrimp trawler drying nets at Matlasha Pass. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Copra drying shed on shore of Truk Lagoon. Credit: Small World. |
 | First mate of the WESTWARD viewing copra drying operation. Credit: Small World. |  | L to R Tommy Roger, Larry Adams, William Jones and Adrian Celestino load tobacco into a drying barn on the Rogers Farm in the Danville, VA area. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Opium Drying 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Opium stalks hung to dry....no I'm not an Opium addict, these grow wild in my aunt and uncle's vineyard, they are dried for decoration." | "Turn it Over" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "Glass mugs drying on a towel. Tungsten tinge." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | After soaking two years and then lying high six months it was perfectly sound, though waterlogged past drying. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It cannot tolerate drying and can be killed by oxygen. (references) | |
Sterile ointments are sometimes used at night to help prevent the eye from drying. (references) | ||
Other treatments are usually aimed at protecting the eye from drying at nighttime. (references) | ||
Business | Additionally, a lot of grain is also lost to the common practice of sun drying. (references) | |
Thermal energy (diesel oil) is used mainly in the pre-treatment, drying and baking stages. (references) | ||
But, contracts in the USD 2.7-5.4 million range are drying up, and there will not be sufficient volumes to satisfy an overly crowded industry. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kazakhstan | U.S. exports to Kazakhstan mostly consist of grain harvesting combines and a small number of tractors, seeders, sprayers, cultivators, and grain drying and cleaning equipment. (references) |
Guyana | The industry is also pushing for strategic foreign investments which it hopes will take it forward, especially in areas of storage and drying facilities, value-added production and cultivation. (references) | |
Guyana | Many investors are encouraged to participate with existing operators in activities to produce not only furniture, but also plywood and veneers, parquet, floor tiles, kiln drying and wood preservation activities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DRYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.50% of the time. "DRYING" is used about 483 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.5% | 409 | 13,773 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.5% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.75% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.24% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 483 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DRYING": air drying ♦ centrifugal drying machine ♦ chamber drying ♦ drying agent ♦ drying cupboard ♦ drying cylinder ♦ drying hood ♦ drying kiln ♦ drying loft ♦ drying machine ♦ drying of air ♦ Drying oil ♦ Drying oils ♦ drying oven ♦ drying rack ♦ drying room ♦ drying rum ♦ drying shed ♦ drying stove ♦ drying up ♦ flash drying ♦ Freeze Drying ♦ winter drying. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "DRYING": drying-allow, drying-field, drying-out, drying-out cell, drying-room, drying-up, drying-up cloth. | |
Ending with "DRYING": air-drying, blow-drying, fast-drying, fish-drying, non-drying, quick-drying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drying flower | 214 | drying food | 19 |
drying herb | 123 | drying off | 17 |
drying zonal | 88 | grain drying | 16 |
drying | 70 | drying oven paint | 15 |
drying rack | 57 | catalytic drying oven | 15 |
clothes drying rack | 53 | drying seed | 15 |
drying equipment | 49 | drying lumber | 14 |
freeze drying | 47 | drying agent | 14 |
drying rose | 44 | laundry drying rack | 14 |
drying hydrangeas | 43 | drying pepper | 13 |
spray drying | 34 | drying rooms | 12 |
wood drying | 33 | vacuum drying | 12 |
drying fruit | 33 | drying and dehydrating | 12 |
drying oven | 31 | drying flower gel silica | 12 |
drying lavender | 27 | clothes drying | 11 |
breast drying milk up | 26 | drying flower freeze | 10 |
carpet cleaners cleaning deep drying fast fast refresh | 25 | drying petal rose | 10 |
kiln drying | 23 | drying mushroom | 10 |
hydrangea drying | 23 | apricot drying | 10 |
drying fresh flower | 22 | cabinet drying | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DRYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tharje (dehydration, desiccation, drainage, drying up, emaciation, withering). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجفف (dehydrated, dehydrating, desiccated, desiccative, dried, dryer, exsiccated), تجفيف (desiccation, drainage, seasoning). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сушилня (desiccator, drier, dryer, drying oven, evaporator). (various references) | |
Chinese | 烘干 (Dried). (various references) | |
Czech | sušení. (various references) | |
Danish | toerring (curing, dehydration), tørring (desiccation, seasoning). (various references) | |
Dutch | droging (curing, dehydration), drogen (dry), wateronttrekking (dehydration), uitdroging (curing, dehydration, desication, desiccation, kraurosis), laten drogen (seasoning). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuivatus (draining). (various references) | |
French | séchage (dry). (various references) | |
German | trocknend (dehumidifying, toweling), abtrocknend. (various references) | |
Greek | στέγνωμα (to dry out), ξήρανση (dehydration). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבוש (desiccation, drainage), התיבשות (becoming dry), הובשה, נגיבה (wiping), נגוב (wiping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szárító (dish drainer, dish rack, drier, dryer, siccative, withering), szárítás (blotting, curing, dehydration), száradó (withering), száradás (becoming dry). (various references) | |
Italian | essiccazione (desiccation, exsiccation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 乾き (dryness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かわき (dryness, thirst). (various references) | |
Korean | 말림. (various references) | |
Manx | sloateilys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yingdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dessecação (exsiccation), desidratação (dehydrating, dehydration, desication, desiccation), secagem da cola, secagem (rubdown, seasoning), cura (parson, pastor, priest, recovery, repair, restoration, seasoning, vicar). (various references) | |
Romanian | uscare (sear). (various references) | |
Russian | сушка (desiccation, siccative), высыхание (mummification). (various references) | |
Scottish | loban, lòban, lòpan (a creel for drying corn basket), àth (a ford, a kiln, ford, kiln for drying grain). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sušenje (tabes). (various references) | |
Spanish | deshidratación (dehydration), desecación (desiccation, exsiccation), secado (seasoning), el secado, el desecado, curado (cured, team). (various references) | |
Swedish | torkning (airing, evaporation). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuruyan, kurutma (dehydration, desiccation), kuru (arid, dried, dry, rate, sapless, scarious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сушильний (siccative), що висихає. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eita ballei udwr eiV ton nipthra kai hrxato niptein touV podaV twn maqhtwn kai ekmassein tw lentiw w hn diezwsmenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deinde mittit aquam in pelvem et coepit lavare pedes discipulorum et extergere linteo quo erat praecinctus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Æfter þam he dede wæter on fæt. & þwog his leorning-cnihte fët. & dreide hyomid þare lin-wæde þe he wæs mið be-gert. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And aftirward he putte watir in to a basyn, and biganne to waische the disciplis feet, and to wipe with the lynnen cloth, with which he was gird. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | After that poured he water into a basyn and beganne to wash his disciples fete and to wype them with the towell wherwith he was gyrde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | After that, he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 13, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug naghuwad siyag tubig sa palanggana ug iyang gisugdan ang pagpanghugas sa mga tiil sa mga tinun-an ug sa pagpahid niini sa tualya nga iyang gibakus. |
| Croatian | Nalije zatim vodu u praonik i poène uèenicima prati noge i otirati ih ubrusom kojim je bio opasan. |
| Danish | Derefter hælder han Vand i Vaskefadet og begyndte at to Disciplenes Fødder og at tørre dem med Linklædet, som han var ombunden med. |
| Dutch | Daarna goot Hij water in het bekken, en begon de voeten der discipelen te wassen, en af te drogen met den linnen doek, waarmede Hij omgord was. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän kaatoi vettä pesumaljaan ja rupesi pesemään opetuslastensa jalkoja ja pyyhkimään niitä liinavaatteella, jolla oli vyöttäytynyt. |
| French | Ensuite il versa de l`eau dans un bassin, et il se mit à laver les pieds des disciples, et à les essuyer avec le linge dont il était ceint. |
| German | Darnach goß er Wasser in ein Becken, hob an, den Jüngern die Füße zu waschen, und trocknete sie mit dem Schurz, damit er umgürtet war. |
| Hungarian | Azután vizet tölte a medenczébe, és kezdé mosni a tanítványok lábait, és megtörleni a kendõvel, a melylyel körül van kötve. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah itu Ia menuang air ke dalam sebuah baskom, lalu mulai membasuh kaki pengikut-pengikut-Nya dan mengeringkannya dengan anduk yang terikat di pinggang-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu Ia menuang air ke dalam sebuah bokor, lalu mulai membasuh kaki murid-murid-Nya dan menyapu dengan kain yang terikat dipinggang-Nya itu. |
| Maori | Me i reira ka ringihia e ia he wai ki te peihana, a ka anga ka horoi i nga waewae o nga akonga, ka muru hoki ki te tauera i whitikiria ai ia. |
| Norwegian | Derefter slår han vann i et fat, og så begynte han å vaske disiplenes føtter og å tørke dem med linklædet som han var ombundet med. |
| Portuguese | Depois deitou água na bacia e começou a lavar os pés aos discípulos, e a enxugar-lhos com a toalha com que estava cingido. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a turnat apq kntr`un lighean wi a knceput sq spele picioarele ucenicilor, wi sq le wteargq cu wtergarul cu care era kncins. |
| Russian | рПФПН ЧМЙМ ЧПДЩ Ч ХНЩЧБМШОЙГХ Й ОБЮБМ ХНЩЧБФШ ОПЗЙ ХЮЕОЙЛБН Й ПФЙТБФШ РПМПФЕОГЕН, ЛПФПТЩН ВЩМ РТЕРПСУБО. |
| Shuar | Nuyá nijiaamatainium entsan Yará ni unuiniamuri nawen nijiatramiayi. Tura awankémjai japirmiayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha akatia maji katika bakuli, akaanza kuwaosha wanafunzi wake miguu na kuipangusa kwa kile kitambaa alichojifungia. |
| Swedish | Sedan slog han vatten i ett bäcken och begynte två lärjungarnas fötter och torkade dem med linneduken som han hade bundit om sig. |
| Uma | Oti toe, na'ala' ue natua hi batili, natepu'u-mi mpobohoi' witi' ana'guru-na, pai' naporihi hante abe' to hi hope' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DRYING": overdrying, redrying, roughdrying, semidrying, updrying. (additional references) | |
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"DRYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daying, Diying, diy-ing, dring, drving, dryen, Drynie, dyring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DRYING" (pronounced drī"ing) |
| 5 | d r ī" i ng | semidrying. |
| 4 | -r ī" i ng | crying, decrying, frying, prying, retrying, trying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | applying, belying, buying, complying, defying, denying, dyeing, dying, eyeing, flying, implying, indemnifying, lying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, relying, replying, shying, sighing, spying, supplying, tieing, tying, underlying, undying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: dingy, dying, grind, ridgy. | |
-2 letters: ding, gird, girn, grid, grin, gyri, rind, ring, rynd, yird. | |
-3 letters: dig, din, dry, gid, gin, rid, rig, rin, yid, yin. | |
-4 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: draying, yarding. | |
+2 letters: dairying, daringly, decrying, dirtying, grindery, readying, redrying, redyeing, synergid, syringed, updrying. | |
+3 letters: adoringly, brandying, dairyings, darlingly, defraying, descrying, dignitary, droningly, hydrating, joyriding, parodying, rebodying, redefying, redenying, remedying, synergids. | |
+4 letters: admiringly, bedirtying, broodingly, decrypting, deridingly, destroying, divergency, draggingly, drawlingly, driftingly, droopingly, drudgingly, enduringly, grindingly, grudgingly, gynandries, joyridings, ladyfinger, overdrying, overdyeing, pyramiding, reedifying, resignedly, restudying, semidrying, underlying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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