dryer

See also: Dryer

English

Alternative forms

drier

Etymology 1

dry +‎ -er (“agent suffix”)

Noun

dryer (plural dryers)

A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
An electric hair dryer.
Any other device, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.

Synonyms

(household appliance for drying clothing): clothes dryer
(hair dryer):

Hyponyms

(other drying device): dehumidifier

Translations

household appliance for drying clothing

Azerbaijani: quruducu
Bulgarian: суши́лня f (sušílnja)
Catalan: assecadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 烘乾機 (zh), 烘干机 (zh) (hōnggānjī), 乾衣機, 干衣机 (gānyījī)
Czech: sušička (cs) f
Danish: tørretumbler (da)
Dutch: droger (nl)
Finnish: kuivuri, kuivain, kuivausrumpu (fi)
French: sèche-linge (fr) m, sécheuse (fr) f
Georgian: საშრობი (sašrobi)
German: Wäschetrockner (de) m, Trockner (de) m
Hebrew: מייבש כביסה‎‎ (he) m (meyabésh k'visá)
Icelandic: þurrkari m
Irish: triomadóir m
Japanese: 衣類乾燥機 (いるいかんそうき, irui kansōki), 乾燥機 (かんそうき, kansōki)
Korean: 빨래 건조기 (ppallae geonjogi), 건조기 (geonjogi)

Mongolian: хатаагч (mn) (hataagč)
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 n, sušilica f, sušionik m
Spanish: secadora (es) f
Swedish: torktumlare (sv) c
Tagalog: patuyuan
Tibetan: དུག་སློག་སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (dug slog skam yag 'phrul 'khor)
Turkish: kurutucu (tr)
Ukrainian: суша́рка (uk) f (sušárka)
Uzbek: qurituvchi
Welsh: sychwr (cy) m

any device that removes humidity

Portuguese: secador (pt) m

Tibetan: སྐམ་ཡག་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར (skam yag 'phrul 'khor)

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Georgian: ^{(please verify)} საშრობი (sašrobi)

Etymology 2

dry +‎ -er (“comparative suffix”)

Adjective

dryer

(US) Alternative spelling of drier

Anagrams

Derry, Ryder, derry, redry, ryder

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