Dry-cleaner

Definition

dry /draÇ/ adj ( drier, driest ) ၁။ ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေသာ။ Is the washing dry yet? ❍ Don't use this door until the paint is dry. ❍ This pastry is too dry—add some water. ❍ My mouth/throat feels dry. ❍ I've got a dry cough (ie without PHLEGM). ၂။ မိုးပါးေသာ။ ေခါင္ေသာ။ ေျခာက္ေသာ။ a dry spell/climate/country ❍ I hope it stays dry for our picnic. တို႔ေပ်ာ္ပြဲစားထြက္တဲ့ အခ်ိန္ေလးေတာ့ မိုးလြတ္တန္ ေကာင္းပါရဲ႕။ ၃။ ခန္းေျခာက္ေသာ။ The wells ran dry. ❍ The cows are dry (ie not producing milk). ၄။ ( infml ) ေရငတ္ေသာ။ I'm a bit dry. ❍ This is dry work. ၅။ ေထာပတ္မသုတ္ေသာ။ dry bread/toast. ၆။ မခ်ဳိေသာ။ a crisp dry white wine ❍ a dry sherry. ၇။ (တိုင္းျပည္ေဒသ အခ်ဳိ႕တြင္) အရက္အေရာင္းအဝယ္ ပိတ္ပင္ေသာ။ Some towns in Massachusetts are dry on Sundays. ၈။ အတည္ ေပါက္ႏွင့္ေျပာေသာ (အရႊန္း)။ a dry wit. ၉။ ေအးစက္စက္ႏိုင္ ေသာ။ အသက္မပါေသာ။ a dry manner/greeting/tone of voice. ၁၀။ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္၊ ပ်င္းရိဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ Government reports tend to make rather dry reading. dryly ( also drily) /'draÇli/ adv : ‘They're not famous for their hospitality,’ he remarked dryly. သူတို႔ဟာ ေဖာ္ေရြမႈမရိွဘူးလို႔ မေျပာခ်င္ေျပာခ်င္ ေျပာသည္။ dryness n [U] v ( pt, pp dried ) ၁။ ေျခာက္သည္။ အေျခာက္ခံ သည္။ Leave the dishes to dry (off). ❍ Dry your hands (on this towel). ၂။ ( infml ) (သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္) ေျပာရရြတ္ရမည့္စကား ေမ့သြားသည္။ ❏ drier (also dryer ) /'draÇǝ(r)/ n (esp in compounds) ေျခာက္ခံစက္။ ေသြ႕စက္။ a clothes drier ❍ a hair-drier ❍ a tumble-drier. ❏ (as) dry as a bone [ IDM ] လံုးဝေျခာက္ကပ္ေသာ။ ❏ dry-clean v အေျခာက္ေလွ်ာ္သည္။ dry-cleaner n : My suit is at the dry-cleaner's. dry-cleaning n [U] ❏ dry dock n ေရေဖာက္ထုတ္ထားေသာ သေဘၤာလြန္းက်င္း။ a ship in dry dock for repairs. ❏ dry-eyed adj မ်က္ရည္မက်ေသာ။ မငိုေသာ။ She remained dry-eyed thoughout the trial. ❏ dry ice n [U] ကာဗြန္ဒိုင္ေအာက္ဆိုက္ အခဲ။ ေရခဲေျခာက္။ ❏ dry land n [U] (ပင္လယ္ႏွင့္ခြဲျခားေျပာေသာ) ကုန္းေပၚ၊ ကုန္းေျမ။ I hate sailing and I couldn't wait to reach dry land. ❏ dry law n ( US ) အရက္ အေရာင္းပိတ္ပင္ေသာ ဥပေဒ။ ❏ dry (sb) out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အရက္ျဖတ္သည္၊ ျဖတ္ေပး သည္။ ❏ dry (sth) out [ PHRV ] ေကာင္းေကာင္းေျခာက္သည္။ ေျခာက္ေအာင္ လွန္းသည္။ Your clothes will take ages to dry out. ❏ dry rot n [U] (က) သစ္ စသည္ အမႈန္႔လိုက္၍ ေဆြးျခင္း။ (ခ) ယင္းသို႔ျဖစ္ေစေသာမိႈ။ ❏ dry run n ( infml ) အျပည့္အစံု အစမ္းေလ့က်င့္ျခင္း။ Tonight's performance is a dry run for their big concert next week. ❏ dry up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခန္းေျခာက္သည္။ a dried-up well. ၂။ ကုန္ခန္းသည္။ If foreign aid dries up the situation will be desperate. ၃။ ေျပာမည့္စကား ေမ့ၿပီး ေရွ႕မဆက္ႏိုင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၄။ ( infml ) (usu imperative) စကားေျပာ ရပ္ခိုင္း သည္။ တိတ္စမ္း။ ေတာ္ေတာ့။ ❏ dry (sth) up [ PHRV ] ပန္းကန္ခြက္ေယာက္မ်ားကို ေျခာက္ေအာင္သုတ္သည္။ Who's going to do the drying up? See also BLOW-DRY ❏ dry wall n [U] ( US ) = PLASTERBOARD ❏ milk/suck sb/sth dry [ IDM ] ရသမွ်ညႇစ္ယူသည္။

Examples

1. Is the grass dry enough to cut?
2. Vegetables should be stored in a cool dry place.
3. [wipe/towel/pat something dry] : Wash the lettuce and pat it dry.
4. Someone walked on the concrete before it was dry.
5. The weather is usually dry and sunny at this time of year.
6. Tomorrow will be mostly dry.
7. Warm dry places like southern Spain
8. The chicken was overcooked and dry.
9. All they gave me was some dry bread (=with no butter or anything else on it).
10. The style was too dry for a children’s book.
11. Can I have a drink? I’m really dry.
12. Dry white wine