dryer
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- noun
- /ˈdraɪər/
:
secadora
- For one, we have a washer and dryer, like every New Yorker's dream.
- clothes dryer
- washer and dryer
- dryer sheet
It's like washers and dryers, petroleum trash.
- It's like washers and dryers, petroleum trash.
- It's very uncommon to have dryers because I haven't used one in years.
- So let's do a quick little dryer action.
- I'm the girliest blow dryers, nails like ever.
- May I give a blow dryer relationship update?
- And this like dry dryer machine ball that we play fetch with.
Examples
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Here's the bathroom, washer, dryer, full closet, and cute little bedroom.
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I put my wet clothes in the dryer to remove the moisture quickly.
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In the bedroom, my wife turned on the hair dryer for the third time.
Academic text (2011) -
Some kind soul had taken it from the dryer and left it on the floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll go and get the hair dryer before you catch your death of cold.
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Excuse me, Detective, but the dryer was not working.
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I'll put them in the dryer.
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Their swimsuits are in the dryer.
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It's my industrial-strength hair dryer.
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The washer buzzes, he switches the clothes from washer to dryer, and starts the machine.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A machine that removes water from wet clothes using warm air
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2.6
A machine that dries wet clothes by spinning them in warm air
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A machine that dries clothes by spinning them to remove water
A machine that uses warm air to dry wet clothes
A machine that spins wet clothes with hot air to remove water
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that keeps food or lab samples from spoiling by freezing and removing their water
- Specialized
A machine that cools compressed air to make moisture turn into liquid and be removed
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dryer comes from the simple English word dry plus the ending -er, which means 'one that does'. So a dryer is something that 'makes dry', which explains why we use it to remove water from clothes.