* Dry basis, an expression of a calculation in which the presence of water is ignored

Dry season is extremely hot (.

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

Dry curries are cooked with very little liquid which is allowed to evaporate, leaving the other ingredients coated with the spice mixture.

* Dry distillation or destructive distillation, despite the name, is not truly distillation, but rather a chemical reaction known as pyrolysis in which solid substances are heated in an inert or reducing atmosphere and any volatile fractions, containing high-boiling liquids and products of pyrolysis, are collected.

With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.

Dry friction is subdivided into static friction (" stiction ") between non-moving surfaces, and kinetic friction between moving surfaces.

Dry earth is a reasonably good thermal insulator, and over several weeks of habitation, a shelter will become dangerously hot.

Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote Dry Valley ( 1912 ), which is considered to be influenced by gothic literature.

London Dry gin is usually distilled in the presence of accenting citrus elements, such as lemon and bitter orange peel, as well as a subtle combination of other spices, including any of anise, angelica root and seed, orris root, licorice root, cinnamon, almond, cubeb, savory, lime peel, grapefruit peel, dragon eye, saffron, baobab, frankincense, coriander, grains of paradise, nutmeg and cassia bark.

The first rainy season begins around March and last to the end of July with a peak in June, this rainy season is followed by a short dry break in August known as the August break which is a short dry season lasting for two to three weeks in August. This break is broken by the Short rainy season starting around early September and lasting to Mid October with a peak period at the end of September. The ending of the short rainy season in October is followed by Long Dry Season. This period starts from late October and lasts till early March with peak dry conditions between early December and late February.

The single Dry season experienced in this climate, the tropical savanna climate in central Nigeria beginning from December to march, is hot and dry with the Harmattan wind, a continental tropical ( CT ) airmass laden with dust from the Sahara Desert prevailing throughout this period.

The Alto Chaco ( Upper Chaco ), also called Chaco Seco ( Dry Chaco ) is the western three-quarters of the region, bordering on Bolivia, while the Bajo Chaco ( Lower Chaco ) or Chaco Húmedo ( Humid Chaco ) borders on the Paraguay River.

* January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established.

Dry clay is normally much more stable than sand with regard to excavations.

Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Roodkhaneye Khoshk ( Dry river ) seasonal river.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

* Dry polymer electrolytes-they differ from liquid and gel electrolytes in the sense, that salt is dissolved directly into the solid medium.

Dry centrifugal clutches are now used in many categories ( Rotax Max is one example ) and have become the norm as the top international classes have switched to 125 cc clutched engines as of January 2007.

Dry ice, sometimes referred to as " Cardice " or as " card ice " ( chiefly British English ), is the solid form of carbon dioxide.

Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide ( chemical formula CO < sub > 2 </ sub >), comprising two oxygen atoms bonded to a single carbon atom.

Dry lightning is a term in Canada and the United States for lightning that occurs with no precipitation at the surface.

** Cargo mass: Dry cargo: 1, 500-5, 500 kg

* Dry matter, a measurement of the mass of something when completely dried

Dry extracts are extracts of plant material which are evaporated into a dry mass.

Dry mass has 1 % to 40 % fat ; most of the rest is protein ( 80 % of which is casein ), calcium, and phosphate.

Dry sump lubrication prevents engine oil starvation through high speed corners and lowers the engine's center of mass.

* Dry solids

Dry distillation is the heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products ( which may condense into liquids or solids ).

The county is divided into seventeen townships: Bailey, Battleboro, Castalia, Coopers, Dry Wells, Ferrells, Griffins, Jackson, Mannings, Nashville, North Whitakers, Oak Level, Red Oak, Rocky Mount, Spring Hope, South Whitakers, and Stony Creek.

This environment is classed as sclerophyll open forest and is divided into " Dry " and " Wet " sclerophyll forest.

Indians assisted us over the portage with our heavy articles on their horses, the waters is divided into Several narrow chanels which pass through a hard black rock forming Islands of rocks at this Stage of the water, on those Islands of rocks as well as at and about their Lodges I observe great numbers of Stacks of pounded Salmon neetly preserved in the following manner, i e after Suffiently Dried it is pounded between two Stones fine, and put into a species of basket neetly made of grass and rushes of better than two feet long and one foot Diamiter, which basket is lined with the Skin of Salmon Stretched and dried for the purpose, in theis it is pressed down as hard as is possible, when full they Secure the open part with the fish Skins across which they fasten tho the loops of the basket that part very Securely, and then on a Dry Situation they Set those baskets the Corded part up, their common Custom is to Set 7 as close as they can Stand and 5 on the top of them, and secure them with mats which is raped around them and made fast with cords and Covered also with mats, those 12 baskets of from 90 to 100 w. each form a Stack.

Sealift is divided into three separate project offices: Tanker Project Office, Dry Cargo Project Office and the Surge Project Office.

The Chaco Boreal may be divided furthermore in two: closer to the mountains in the west, the Alto Chaco, or Upper Chaco, sometimes known as Chaco Seco or Dry Chaco, is very dry and sparsely vegetated, continuing eastward where less arid conditions combined with favorable soil characteristics permit a seasonally dry higher growth thorn tree forest, and further east again where still higher rainfall combined with improperly drained lowland soils lead to a somewhat swampy plain called the Bajo Chaco or Lower Chaco, sometimes known as Chaco Húmedo or Humid Chaco, with a more open savanna vegetation consisting of palm trees, quebracho trees and tropical high grass areas with a wealth of insects.

The garden features various themed areas, including a rose garden, herb garden, woodland garden, azalea bank, succulent plants and several rainforest areas divided into Illawarra Rainforest, Subtropical Rainforest, Dry Rainforst and Exotic Rainforest.

The building is divided into two wings: The Wet science wing ( Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry ) and the Dry science wing: ( Physics, Psychology and Neuroscience ) Many classrooms are " Clab " style-mixed class and lab space.

File: The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones. jpg | The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones by Gustave Doré, 1866

* Dry Land, the only album by How We Live

The type of gin used by Thomas was not specified in his 1876 book, but likely was Holland gin rather than English London Dry Gin since Jerry Thomas ' Gin Fizz ( 1862 ) called for Holland gin and Hollands Gin ( Jenever ) was imported into the United States at that time at a ratio of approximately 6 liters to every liter of English London Dry Gin.

Dry suits ( if used together with a buoyancy compensator ) still require a minimum of inflation to avoid " squeezing ", i. e. damage to skin caused by pressurizing dry suit folds.

** Baltic Dry Index, a daily shipping index published by the Baltic Exchange

Dry ink ( toner ) particles are then electrostatically picked up by the drum's charged areas, which have not been exposed to light.

Dry bulk ingredients, such as sugar and flour, are measured by weight in most of the world (" 250 g flour "), and by volume in North America and Australia (" 1 / 2 cup flour ").

Amber Waves and Undertow-Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country-a book written by Steve Turner and published by the University of Oklahoma Press 2009-ISBN 978-0-8061-4005-6

Dry hot days are often relieved by seasonal breezes.

Dry denim can be identified by its lack of a wash, or " fade ".

Dry and Heavy followed in 1977, self-produced but still on Island, and with a sizeable following by now in the United Kingdom, he performed in London that year with members of Aswad acting as his backing band for a sold-out show at the Rainbow Theatre, which was recorded and released as Live !.

In 1989, Sarandon co-starred with Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season, followed by White Palace ( 1990 ) with James Spader.

Dry granulation processes create granules by light compaction of the powder blend under low pressures.

* TS Eliot draws from this myth in The Dry Salvages: " And the ragged rock in the restless waters ,/ Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it ;/ On a halcyon day it is merely a monument ,/ In navigable weather it is always a seamark / To lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.

Grant County is a limited dry county, meaning that sale of alcohol in the county is prohibited, except in Crittenden, Corinth, Dry Ridge and Williamstown, where it is legal by the drink in restaurants seating at least 100 diners and deriving at least 70 % of total sales from food.

Dry marginal woodland becomes fen grassland, dominated by purple moor-grass, which grades into mixed fenland of reed and sedge beds.