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dryer

[ drahy-er ]

noun

  1. Also a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat:

    hair dryer; clothes dryer.



dryer

1

/ ˈdraɪə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that dries
  2. an apparatus for removing moisture by forced draught, heating, or centrifuging
  3. any of certain chemicals added to oils such as linseed oil to accelerate their drying when used as bases in paints, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


dryer

2

/ ˈdraɪə /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of drier 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

We suggest letting it air dry, as the material can lose its softness in commercial dryers.

Some blankets can even go into the dryer—but be aware the dryer has to be large enough, and the heat setting must be low.

If the toys are still damp after a while in the dryer, let them air-dry overnight.

Then ten to fifteen minutes in the dryer on low should do it.

Titanium dryers are also typically non-ionic, and when added to the internal components of a hair dryer, can improve consistency and heat distribution.

The images include a Firestone tire, a frosted cake, a nuclear cloud, and a little girl beneath a hair dryer.

It insists on efficiency standards for household appliances so that your towels come out of the dryer refreshingly cool and damp.

Finally, seats settled and hair dryer blowing, we're ready to launch into our conversation.

At some point in healthcare there must be a margin, like me and my clothes dryer.

I, on the other hand, have a choice to turn my clothes dryer on at noon on the hottest day of the year, or wait until 10pm.

Wash leaves carefully and put on ice either in lettuce dryer or in a cloth.

It was a twisted little smile which might have been born of the pain of stinging lids and dryer, aching throat.

A sugar-cane mill is in operation, connected with which is a centrifugal sugar-dryer, the only one in the State.

By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.

Turn it on full force and it would still be a thousand times dryer than any place here.

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