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

Arid Aridity is the condition of geographical regions which make up approximately 43% of total global available land area, characterized by low annual precipitation, increased temperatures, and limited water availability.Perez-Aguilar, L. Y., Plata ...

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

* Dryness (medical) *

Dryness (taste) Dryness is a property of beverages that describes the lack of a sweet taste. This may be due to a lack of sugars, the presence of some other taste that masks sweetness, or an underabundance of simple carbohydrates that can be converted to sugar ...

, 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) 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, New Jersey, Frankford Township and Branchville, New Jersey, Branchville Borough in Sussex C ...

, various rivers *

Dry Creek (disambiguation) Dry Creek may refer to: Communities Australia * Dry Creek, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide United States * Dry Creek, Alaska, a census-designated place * Dry Creek, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Dry Creek, Oklahoma, a census-d ...

, 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 River ...

, 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 Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep (novel), ''Challenger Deep'' and his novel, ''Scythe (novel), ...

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 ''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