dryer

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A modern front-load tumble clothes dryer for home application
A hair dryer

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Usage notes

In both British and American English, the spelling drier is preferred for the comparative adjective and dryer for the noun.

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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; a desiccative.
    The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
  2. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually through heat and a tumbling motion.
  3. An electric hair dryer.
    • 1996, Curriculum Corporation (Australia), From Igloos to Yurts: Years 4-7, page 23:
      Assist students to design and construct models of hot-air balloons ranging from those using shopping bags and hair dryers, to those using tissue paper and metho burners, depending on the resources available.
  4. Any other device or facility, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
    • 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, []
  5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
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Etymology 2

From dry +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

dryer

  1. (US) comparative form of dry: more dry

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