Dry or dryness most often refers to: * Lack of rainfall, which may refer to **

Arid A region is arid when it severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life. Regions with arid climates tend to lack vegetation and are called xeric or desertic. Most ...

regions **

Drought A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R.P. Allan, P.A. Arias, M. Barlow, R. Cerezo-Mota, A. Cherchi, T.Y. Gan, J. Gergis, D. Jiang, A. Khan, W. Pokam Mba, D. Rosenfeld, J. Tierney, an ...

* Dry or dry area, relating to legal

prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholi ...

of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages * Dry humor,

deadpan Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness or absurdity of the subject matter. The delivery is meant to be blun ...

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 ...

* 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) Dry Brook is a tributary of the Paulins Kill in Frankford Township and Branchville Borough in Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey, United States. Its ...

, 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), 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), 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 During the 1980s, members of the moderate wing of the British Conservative Party who opposed some of the more hard-line policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were often referred to by their opponents as "wets". Thatcher coined the usage in ...

, 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 of ...

(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. Unl ...

, a type of battery

Other uses

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