dryer

See also: Dryer

English[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

drier

Usage notes[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪə/
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

dryer (plural dryers)

One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
An electric hair dryer.
Any other device or facility, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
- 2004 December 17, Evgenii D. Moniushko, From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:
  At that time, father, brother and I worked as night watchmen at the grain dryer. It was a large and complicated structure built out in the steppe. It consisted of a wooden tower with swinging shelves attached to the inside walls, […]
A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.

Synonyms[edit]

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

Hyponyms[edit]

(other drying device): dehumidifier

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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), 乾衣機／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)
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
Spanish: secador m, secadora (es) f
Tibetan: སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skam yag 'phrul 'khor)

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Georgian: ^{(please verify)} საშრობი (sašrobi)

Etymology 2[edit]

dry +‎ -er (comparative suffix)

Adjective[edit]