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.

3. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually through heat and a tumbling motion.
4. An electric hair dryer.
   • 1996, Curriculum Corporation (Australia), From Igloos to Yurts: Years 4-7, page 23:

     Assist students to design and construct models of hot-air balloons ranging from those using shopping bags and hair dryers, to those using tissue paper and metho burners, depending on the resources available.

5. 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, […]

6. 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 ball
• dryerless
• 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

From dry +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

dryer

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

Anagrams

• Derry, Ryder, derry, redry, ryder