Word Finder - drier

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One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.

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

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A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.

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An electric hair dryer.

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Any other device or substance, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.

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A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.

The rivers are many, even on the drier eastern coast.

South of the Bermejo the land is more elevated and drier, though large depressions covered with marshy lagoons are to be found, similar to those farther north.

The Prairie States.The originally treeless prairies of the upper Mississippi basin began in Indiana and extended westward and north-westward until they merged with the drier region described Leyond as the Great Plains.

The Sierra Madre crosses the southern part of the state parallel with the coast, separating the low, humid, forested districts on the frontier of Tabasco from the hot, drier, coastal plain on the Pacific. The mountain region includes a plateau of great fertility and temperate climate, which is one of the best parts of Mexico and contains the larger part of the population of the state.

The climate of the delta is cooler and more temperate than in Upper Burma, and this is shown in the fairer complexion and stouter physique of the people of the lower province as compared with the inhabitants of the drier and hotter upper districts as far as Bhamo, where there is a great infusion of other types of the TibetoBurman family.

On the east coast the same fertility is seen with less forest, and, round Hawkes Bay, a hotter and drier summer.

The red larch grows usually on higher and drier ground, ranging from the Virginian mountains to the shores of Hudson Bay; the black larch is found often on moist land, and even in swamps.

Owing to the prevalent dry easterly winds from the arid plains of north Australia, Timor, like Ombay, Flores and other neighbouring islands, has a much drier climate, and a poorer vegetation, than islands further west, and has few perennial streams and no considerable rivers.

There is much rain in the Futa Jallon highlands, but the Niger basin is somewhat drier.

An optional fleece lining keeps the skin even drier.

The feathers and wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves.

But these pastures have been much damaged by the Provencal shepherds to whom they are let out, while the forests have been very much thinned (though extensive reafforestments are now being carried out) so that the soil is very dry and made drier by exposure to the southern sun.

In the extreme north and south the climate is a warm temperate one, the northern countries being on the whole hotter and drier than those in the southern zone; the south of the continent being narrower than the north, the influence of the surrounding ocean is more felt.

The wide heated plains of the Sahara, and in a lesser degree the corresponding zone of the Kalahari in the south, have an exceedingly scanty rainfall, the winds which blow over them from the ocean losing part of their moisture as they pass over the outer highlands, and becoming constantly drier owing to the heating effects of the burning soil of the interior; while the scarcity of mountain ranges in the more central parts likewise tends to prevent condensation.

The rainfall zones are, however, somewhat deflected from a due west-to-east direction, the drier northern conditions extending southwards along the east coast, and those of the south northwards along the west.

The greater part of the Maremma now affords pasture to large herds of horses and half-wild cattle, but on the drier parts corn is grown, the people coming down from the hills to sow and to reap. The hill country just inland, especially near Volterra, has poor soil, largely clayey, and subject to landslips, but is rich in minerals.

The climate is much drier than that of Chiapas, and the structures are in a better state of preservation than those of Palenque, but the rank vegetation and the decay of the wooden lintels over the doorways have broken down many of the walls.

Cherry laurel are widely present on the drier surface.

The Rydal Wetland has much alder, willow and birch which produce their own special fungi, with oak around the drier edges.

The main auger runs in a bottom well which should last the life of the drier.

Despite the cold, my back felt clammy under the layers of clothing, and my mouth was drier than a witch's tit.

A fully equipped kitchen with oven, fridge/freezer, washing machine/tumble drier, microwave.

The crawl didn't get any drier, in fact in places there was a distinct lack of air.

The drying can be made quicker using a hot air drier.

There is an outdoor drying area with rotary drier.

The northern sides of islands are more sheltered and much drier than the south eastern sides.

The washing machine & tumble drier are housed in a separate utility room.

The washer drier is located in the boiler room.

From the late fifties the mill was used just for rearing pigs, garaging farm machinery, and housing the grain drier.

A 12 ton OPICO batch drier should remove around 5% moisture from 6 tons of wheat in an hour.

These fen vegetation types grade into fen vegetation types grade into fen meadow on the drier ground behind.

We also need lacing eyes for bow and stern fenders and Maureen wants a socket for a Rotary drier.

I am at a standstill at present both are wearing pull-ups, now weather is drier it is time to start again.

In the drier areas you can find foxglove, wood sage, bluebell and other woodland species.

Day 8 Today we depart early, heading for progressively drier thorn savanna in this remote southern section of Ethiopia.

That he's just trying to slip a dead skunk into the tumble drier.

Drier, open grassy banks in the wood are dotted with white stitchwort.

Some of the drier meadows are cut for hay in late summer.

Water shortages and droughts will also become more common as global climatic changes leave us with wetter winters and drier summers.

Where many management books are drier than a diver's underpants this has a freshness and zing about it.

The vent for the tumble drier also looks unsightly!

The flora includes reeds, rushes and sedges along with drier grassland species such as meadow vetchling.

Climate change is affecting and will continue to affect London, as our summers become hotter and drier and our winters wetter.

On the west, with the drier climate, the forest is less luxuriant and dense, and the hill-sides and the valleys better cultivated.

Peculiar forms of Leguminosae also prevail, and these, with many of the other plants of the southern and drier regions of Siberia, or of the colder regions of the desert tracts of Persia and Afghanistan, extend into Tibet, where the extreme drought and the hot (nearly vertical) sun combine to produce a summer climate not greatly differing from that of the plains of central Asia.

The most common species in the alluvial regions and, to a less degree, in the drier portions of the swamps and in the stream bottoms of the prairies are various oaks, black, sweet and tupelo gum, holly, cotton-wood, poplar, magnolia sweet bay, the tulip tree, catalpa, black walnut, pecans, hickories, ash, beech and short-leaf pine.

The first wine, which is termed the vin de te'te, is generally the sweetest and finest, the next (called the milieu) being somewhat drier and the last (vin de queue) being the least valuable.

Richard Shackleton was endowed with a grave, pure and tranquil nature, constant and austere, yet not without those gentle elements that often redeem the drier qualities of his religious persuasion.

The drier Priestley-Belsham type of Unitarianism, bound up with a determinist philosophy, was gradually modified by the influence of Channing (see below), whose works were reprinted in numerous editions and owed a wide circulation to the efforts of Robert Spears (1825-1899).

Their skin is a lot drier and oilier due to higher sebum levels and high moisture evaporation rates.