dryer

See also: Dryer

English

A modern front-load tumble clothes dryer for home application

A hair dryer

Alternative forms

• drier (in both British and US English, drier is preferred for the 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; any device or facility employed to remove water or humidity, e.g. a desiccative
   • 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, […]

   The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

3. (most often) Short for clothes dryer, tumble dryer.
4. (rare) Short for hair dryer.
5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.

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

any device that removes humidity

• Esperanto: sekigilo
• Hungarian: szárító (hu)
• Korean: 건조기(乾燥機) (geonjogi)
• Portuguese: secador (pt) m
• Spanish: secador m, secadora (es) f
• Tibetan: སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skam yag 'phrul 'khor)

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: Trockner m, Wäschetrockner 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, secarropas (es) m
• 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

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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