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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaɪə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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

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

Derived terms

• blow dryer
• blow-dryer
• dryer sheet
• hair-dryer
• hand dryer
• jet dryer
• spin dryer
• tumbler dryer
• washer-dryer

 

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), 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:

  Cyrillic: хатаагч (mn) (xataagč)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠲᠠᠭᠠᠭᠴᠢ (qataɣaɣči)

• 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), kurutma makinesi (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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Translations to be checked

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

Etymology 2

dry +‎ -er (comparative suffix)

Adjective

dryer

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

Anagrams

• Derry, Ryder, derry, redry, ryder