dryer

See also: Dryer

English

A modern front-load tumble clothes dryer for home application

A hair dryer

Alternative forms

• drier

Usage notes

In both British and American English, the spelling drier is preferred for the comparative adjective and dryer for the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

dryer (plural dryers)

1. One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.

   The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

2. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
3. An electric hair dryer.
4. Any other device or substance, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.

Synonyms

• (household appliance for drying clothing): clothes dryer, tumble dryer
• (hair dryer):

Hyponyms

• (other drying device): dehumidifier

Translations

household appliance for drying clothing

• Azerbaijani: quruducu
• Bulgarian: суши́лня f (sušílnja)
• Catalan: assecadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烘乾機／烘干机 (zh) (hōnggānjī), 烘干机 (zh) (hōnggānjī), 乾衣機／干衣机 (zh) (gānyījī), 干衣机 (zh) (gānyījī)

• Czech: sušička (cs) f
• Danish: tørretumbler (da) c
• Dutch: droger (nl)
• Finnish: kuivuri, kuivain, kuivausrumpu (fi)
• French: sèche-linge (fr) m, sécheuse (fr) f
• Georgian: საშრობი (sašrobi)
• German: Wäschetrockner (de) m, Trockner (de) m
• Hebrew: מייבש כביסה (he) m (meyabésh k'visá)
• Icelandic: þurrkari m
• Irish: triomadóir m
• Italian: essiccatoio m
• Japanese: 衣類乾燥機 (いるいかんそうき, irui kansōki), 乾燥機 (ja) (かんそうき, kansōki)
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• Korean: 빨래 건조기 (ppallae geonjogi), 건조기 (geonjogi)
• Mongolian: хатаагч (mn) (xataagč)
• Norman: s'tcheux m
• Norwegian: tørketrommel (no) m
• Polish: suszarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: secadora f
• Russian: суши́льная маши́на f (sušílʹnaja mašína), суши́лка (ru) f (sušílka) (для белья́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: sušilo (sh) n, sušilica f, sušionik m

• Spanish: secadora (es) f
• Swedish: torktumlare (sv) c
• Tagalog: patuyuan
• Tibetan: དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor)
• Turkish: kurutucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: суша́рка (uk) f (sušárka)
• Uzbek: qurituvchi
• Welsh: sychwr (cy) m

hairdryer — see hairdryer

any device that removes humidity

• Esperanto: sekigilo
• Portuguese: secador (pt) m
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• Spanish: secador m, secadora (es) f
• Tibetan: སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skam yag 'phrul 'khor)

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• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} საშრობი (sašrobi)
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Etymology 2

dry +‎ -er (“comparative suffix”)

Adjective

dryer

1. (US) comparative form of dry: more dry

Anagrams

• Derry, Ryder, derry, redry, ryder