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# drier

«drier» in Mova's school dictionary: **the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (dry, drier, driest); noun (a drier, driers — also dryer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Drier is the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#m1)

2) A drier (often spelled dryer) is a machine that dries things, like a clothes dryer or a hair dryer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography, deserts are drier than rainforests; pupils compare how quickly things dry. In everyday life, clothes go in the dryer. Phrases: drier than, a tumble dryer, hair dryer.

### examples

- The desert is drier than the jungle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x1)
- My towel is drier than yours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x2)
- This summer was drier than last summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x3)
- Put the wet clothes in the dryer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x4)
- Today is drier, so we can play outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x5)
- Which cloth is drier after five minutes in the sun? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/#x6)

### note

Spelling: dry, drier, driest for the adjective (y changes to i). For the machine, dryer is more common, but drier is also correct. Hair dryers and water don't mix: never use one near a bath or sink.

### In the corpora

- [Toads walk more than they hop and have drier, bumpier skin than frogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics/13/)
- [Of course, nobody gets any drier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.