wet vs dry
Definitions
adjective
- very drunk
- containing moisture or volatile components
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- producing or secreting milk
verb
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- cause to become wet
noun
- wetness caused by water
Examples
The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.
The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high.
During the next patrol, at about 10 p.m., however, our men found fresh footprints on the wet ground.
Definitions
adjective
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
noun
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
verb
- remove the moisture from and make dry
- become dry or drier
Examples
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal.
A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
