What is dry?

Dry means not wet, it’s when there’s no water or liquid on something.

Imagine you’re playing with your favorite toy boat in a puddle. That's wet because the water is touching your boat. Now, picture that same boat sitting on the floor after the puddle has disappeared. There’s no water anymore, that’s dry.

• When you take a towel and wipe your face after a bath, the towel gets wet, but your face becomes dry.
• If you leave your glass of juice on the table and it goes empty, the glass is now dry, no more liquid inside.

Sometimes, water just disappears. Like when you spill some water on the floor and it soaks into the carpet, eventually, there’s not much water left, and the floor becomes dry again. You can also help make things dry by using a towel or even a fan to speed up the process.

So remember: dry is just a fancy way of saying “not wet”, like your socks after you take them off and let them sit in the sun!Dry means not wet, it’s when there’s no water or liquid on something.

Imagine you’re playing with your favorite toy boat in a puddle. That's wet because the water is touching your boat. Now, picture that same boat sitting on the floor after the puddle has disappeared. There’s no water anymore, that’s dry.