** dry summer, wet winter: Most regions of the earth receive most of their rainfall during the summer months ; Mediterranean climate regions receive their rainfall during the winter months.

** Summer rainy season and cooler “ winter ” dry season

** High carbon materials tend to be brown and dry.

** Baking-direct and indirect dry heat in a furnace or oven, faster than smoking but slower than grilling.

** Braising-combining a direct dry heat charbroil-grill or gridiron-grill with a pot filled with broth for direct moist heat, faster than smoking but slower than regular grilling and baking ; time starts fast, slows down, then speeds up again to finish.

** Drydock, a basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform

** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622. 287 mph ( 1 001. 452 863 km / h ) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

** Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests ( Spain )

** Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets ( Morocco, Canary Islands ( Spain ))

** Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe ( Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia )

** 2, 270 dry gallons or 284 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 22, 702 dry gallons or 2, 838 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 227, 021 dry gallons or 28, 378 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 2, 270, 207 dry gallons or 283, 776 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** dry gloves ; made of rubber witha latex wrist seal to prevent water entry

** AT0202 Madagascar dry deciduous forests

** AA0202 New Caledonia dry forests

** IM0202 Central Indochina dry forests

** IM0203 Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests

** NT0201 Apure-Villavicencio dry forests

** I went to the basketball court ; I was told it was closed for cleaning.

** janitors ( who provide cleaning services )

** Self-service laundry ( offering the service of automated fabric cleaning )

** Time allotted: not exceeding 25 minutes, for all 30 darts, including shooting, scoring, retrieval, and cleaning the barrel

** Marder 1 A2 ( 1984 – 1991 ): Between 1984 and 1991, all German Marder 1's were upgraded to A2 standard, this included substantial modification of the suspension, fuel tanks, cooling system and water-jet cleaning system.

Pearson v. Chung, the case of a Washington, D. C. judge, Roy Pearson, who sued a dry cleaning business for $ 67 million ( later lowered to $ 54 million ), has been cited as an example of frivolous litigation.

* Various compounds that have been used in agriculture, dry cleaning, fire suppression, and other applications.

Common uses for organic solvents are in dry cleaning ( e. g., tetrachloroethylene ), as paint thinners ( e. g., toluene, turpentine ), as nail polish removers and glue solvents ( acetone, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate ), in spot removers ( e. g., hexane, petrol ether ), in detergents ( citrus terpenes ), in perfumes ( ethanol ), nail polish and in chemical synthesis.

Humans have developed many specialized methods for laundering, ranging from early methods of pounding clothes against rocks in running streams, to the latest in electronic washing machines and dry cleaning ( dissolving dirt in solvents other than water ).

These include ceasing irrigation a few days before harvesting to allow pathogens to die off in the sunlight, applying water carefully so it does not contaminate leaves likely to be eaten raw, cleaning vegetables with disinfectant or allowing fecal sludge used in farming to dry before being used as a human manure.

Liquid silicone can be used as a dry cleaning solvent, providing an " environmentally friendly " alternative to the traditional chlorine-containing perchloroethylene ( perc ) solvent.

Use of silicones in dry cleaning reduces the environmental impact of a typically high-polluting industry.

*** tetrachloroethylene-also called perchloroethylene ; used as a dry cleaning solvent and degreaser

Caped hangers are used by dry cleaners to protect garments after cleaning.

DeVito was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of Julia, a homemaker, and Daniel Michael DeVito, Sr., who owned several small businesses, including a dry cleaning store, a dairy outlet, a luncheonette, and a pool hall.

One day, when the Monster Hero kills a seemingly innocent old midget woman in a dry cleaning store ( it is later revealed that she is in fact a leader of an underground white slave trade ) by throwing her into the store's washing machine, the Monster Hero wanders back to his junkyard home revealing his true identity to Sarah and feeling terrified and guilty for what he has become.

Historical natron was harvested directly as a salt mixture from dry lake beds in Ancient Egypt and has been used for thousands of years as a cleaning product for both the home and body.

Velvet is difficult to clean because of its pile, but modern dry cleaning methods make cleaning more feasible.

Surprisingly, instead of being shocked at being sucked up by the ship, Gloria is merely annoyed by the encounter, commenting " who is going to pay for my dry cleaning?

The term is mostly applied only to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning ( which uses alternative cleaning fluids, and is performed by specialist businesses ) or ultrasonic cleaners.

Modern dry cleaning uses non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes.

He subsequently developed a service cleaning people's clothes in this manner, which became known as " nettoyage à sec "— i. e., dry cleaning.

By the mid-1930s, the dry cleaning industry had adopted tetrachloroethylene ( perchloroethylene ), or " perc " for short, as the ideal solvent.

In 1993, the California Air Resources Board adopted regulations to reduce perc emissions from dry cleaning operations ; the same year, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) followed suit.

The dry cleaning industry is in the process of replacing perc with other chemicals and / or methods.

Between 2006 and 2011, the dry cleaning industry had an average market size of $ 7. 5 billion, 22, 000 firms, and employed approximately 150, 000 workers.

A typical dry cleaning firm employs 7 workers and brings in $ 330, 000 per year.