dry off en · VERB
Meanings
- (transitive) To make dry.
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(intransitive) To become dry.
The weather was atrocious (driving rain, strong wind, bone-chilling cold), but that didn't prevent us from getting out of our car, and walking over to the lighthouse there.[…] After taking some time to dry off while having a seafood lunch at the nearby Fuchi (Fuji) Fishing Harbor 富基漁港, we continued down the coast to the Temple of the Eighteen Lords 十八王公廟.
2008 February 9, Kaminoge, “Welcoming in the Year of the Rat in Tansui and Hokutō Onsen 子年の旅行：淡水、北投温泉”, in A Curmudgeon Abroad (Blog), archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023:Drying off after the day of surfing in the afternoon summer sun of New Zealand, they remarked to each other how ironic their trip had been so far.
1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
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(transitive) To cease milking a cow in preparation for calving.
In an early study with cows producing very little milk at drying off, new infection rates were about equal whether cows were dried off abruptly or after a period of intermittent milking.
1986, Eberhart, R. J., “Management of Dry Cows to Reduce Mastitis”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 69, number 6, →DOI, pages 1721-1732:Thus, revenue from milk yield before dry-off is higher for cows that are abruptly dried off.
2020 September 24, Pornpamol Pattamanont, Marcos Marcondes, Albert De Vries, “Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Dry-off Methods for Dairy Cows”, in edis.ifas.ufl.edu, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023:If you are drying off more cows than normal you are likely to need to increase the area in which you normally keep dry cows.
2023 December 8 (last accessed), “Drying dairy cows off early”, in Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dries off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| drying off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| dried off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| dried off | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Translations (19)
la serescō (to become dry) · uk запуска́ти (to cease milking a cow in preparation for calving) · ru высу́шивать (to make dry) · uk запусти́ти (to cease milking a cow in preparation for calving) · ru высыха́ть (to become dry) · nl afdrogen (to make dry) · uk вису́шувати (to make dry) · de abtrocknen (to make dry) · uk ви́сушити (to make dry) · uk со́хнути (to become dry) · de abtrocknen (to become dry) · fr essuyer (to make dry) · uk ви́сохнути (to become dry) · uk висиха́ти (to become dry) · ru суши́ть (to make dry) · ru со́хнуть (to become dry) · ru вы́сушить (to make dry) · uk суши́ти (to make dry) · ru вы́сохнуть (to become dry)