Dry or dryness most often refers to: * Lack of rainfall, which may refer to ** Arid regions ** Drought * Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages * Dry humor, deadpan *

Dryness (medical) Dryness is a medical condition in which there is local or more generalized decrease in normal lubrication of the skin or mucous membranes. Examples of local dryness include dry mouth, dry eyes, dry skin (xeroderma), Diabetic foot and vaginal d ...

* Dryness (taste), the lack of sugar in a drink, especially an alcoholic one * Dry direct sound without

reverberation Reverberation (also known as reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound, after a sound is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is abso ...

Dry or DRY may also refer to:

Places

Dry Brook (disambiguation) Dry Brook may refer to: New Jersey, United States * Dry Brook (Paulins Kill tributary) New York, United states * Dry Brook (Cannonsville Reservoir tributary) * Dry Brook (Corbett, New York) * Dry Brook (East Branch Delaware River) * Dry Brook (Eas ...

, various rivers *

Dry Creek (disambiguation) Dry Creek may refer to: * Arroyo (creek) – a type of dry creek * Wadi – a type of dry creek, most commonly found in the Middle East Communities ;Australia *Dry Creek, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide *Dry Creek railway station, a statio ...

, various rivers and towns * Dry, Loiret, a commune of the Loiret ''département'' in France *

Dry River (disambiguation) Dry River may refer to: Waterways ;In Australia * Dry River (New South Wales), a tributary of the Murrah River in the South Coast region of New South Wales * Dry River (Northern Territory) * Dry River (Queensland), a tributary of the Burdekin Rive ...

, various rivers and towns

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

* ''Dry'' (2014 film), a Nigerian film directed by Stephanie Linus * ''Dry'' (2022 film), an Italian film directed by Paolo Virzì * ''The Dry'' (film), a 2020 film based on the novel by Jane Harper

Literature

* ''Dry'' (memoir), a 2003 memoir by Augusten Burroughs * ''The Dry'' (novel), a 2016 novel by Jane Harper

Music

Dry (group) Dry is a Cantopop music duo that formed between 1997 and 1998 with Mark Lui () and Stephen Fung () as bandmates. The group was formed when Mark decided to create a band with himself and another person. After meeting Stephen through friends introduc ...

, a Cantopop music duo * ''Dry'' (album), by PJ Harvey, 1992 * "Dry", a song by PJ Harvey from the 1993 album '' Rid of Me'' * "Dry" (song), by Rancid Eddie, 2021 * "Dry", a song by Kutless from their self-titled album * "Dry", a song by Welsh band Feeder from the 1999 album '' Yesterday Went Too Soon''

Television

* ''The Dry'' (TV series), an Irish TV series

Organizations

* Asociación Democracia Real Ya * Plataforma ¡Democracia Real YA! * Wets and dries, a faction in the British Conservative Party

Technology and computing

Don't repeat yourself "Don't repeat yourself" (DRY) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of software patterns, replacing it with abstractions or using data normalization to avoid redundancy. The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece o ...

(DRY), a software development principle *

Dry cell upLine art drawing of a dry cell: 1. brass cap, 2. plastic seal, 3. expansion space, 4. porous cardboard, 5. zinc can, 6. carbon rod, 7. chemical mixture A dry cell is a type of electric battery, commonly used for portable electrical devices. Un ...

, a type of battery

Other uses

* Dry (surname), a surname * Dry (rapper) (born 1977), real name Landry Delica, rapper of Congolese origin