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

Drought A drought is a period of 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, ...

* 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 alcoholic b ...

of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages * Dry humor, deadpan * Dryness (medical) * Dryness (taste), the lack of sugar in a drink, especially an alcoholic one * Dry direct sound without

reverberation In acoustics, reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb) is a persistence of sound after it is produced. It is often created when a sound is reflection (physics), reflected on surfaces, causing multiple reflections that build up and then de ...

Dry or DRY may also refer to:

Places

* Dry Brook (disambiguation), various rivers * Dry Creek (disambiguation), 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 and television

* ''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 directed by Robert Connolly and based on the novel by Jane Harper ** '' Force of Nature: The Dry 2'', a 2024 sequel film * ''The Dry'' (TV series), an Irish TV series

Literature

* ''Dry'' (memoir), a 2003 memoir by Augusten Burroughs * ''The Dry'' (novel), a 2016 novel by Jane Harper * ''Dry'', a 2018 novel by Jarrod and Neal Shusterman

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 ''Rid of Me'' is the second studio album by the English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey, released on 26 April 1993 by Island Records, approximately one year after the release of her critically acclaimed debut studio album '' Dry'' (1992). It marked ...

'' * "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 ''Yesterday Went Too Soon'' is the second studio album by Welsh rock band Feeder. It was released on 30 August 1999 on The Echo Label. ''Yesterday Went Too Soon'' entered the UK charts at #8, after a decent amount of critical success. The t ...

Organizations

Asociación Democracia Real Ya The Asociación Democracia Real Ya (''Real Democracy NOW! association'', ''Democracia Real Ya association'', ''DRY'' or ''DRY association'') is an association created as from a split in Plataforma ¡Democracia Real YA! by several speakers and mem ...

* Plataforma ¡Democracia Real YA! *

Wets and dries Wets and dries are British political terms that refer to opposing factions within the Conservative Party. The terms originated in the 1980s during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher: those who opposed some of Thatcher's more hard-line polic ...

, 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 information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids r ...

(DRY), a software development principle *

Dry cell An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its nega ...

, a type of battery

Other uses

* Dry (surname), a surname *

Dry (rapper) Delica Landry born 16 March 1977 in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Villepinte, better known by his stage name Dry, is a French Rapping, rapper of Congo (area), Congolese origin. He is also known by the aliases "L'Amiral" and "L'Intransférable". ...

(born 1977), real name Landry Delica, rapper of Congolese origin