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hand-drier

Meaning of "hand-drier" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HAND-DRIER

ˈhænddraɪə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAND-DRIER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hand-Drier is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HAND-DRIER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hand-drier in the English dictionary

The definition of hand-drier in the dictionary is an electrical appliance, usually found in public toilets, that dries a person's hands through the expulsion of hot air.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAND-DRIER

briar · brier · crier · drier · dryer · friar · fryer · greenbrier · hairdrier · hairdryer · hand-dryer · pariah · Praia · prier · prior · trier · Uriah · washer-dryer · Zachariah · Zechariah

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAND-DRIER

hand-delivered · hand-dryer · hand-held · hand-knit · hand-knitted · hand-knitting · hand-list · hand-loomed · hand-me-down · hand-me-up · hand-off · hand-out · hand-painted · hand-pick · hand-picked · hand-piece · hand-play · hand-printed · hand-rear · hand-reared

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAND-DRIER

aircraft carrier · baby carrier · barrier · bull terrier · carrier · clothes drier · courier · couturier · Dandie Dinmont terrier · Fourier · harrier · Laurier · perrier · Skye terrier · tawdrier · terrier · the Water Carrier · varier · Welsh terrier · Yorkshire terrier

Synonyms and antonyms of hand-drier in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hand-drier» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAND-DRIER

Find out the translation of hand-drier to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hand-drier from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hand-drier» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

手干燥机
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

mano de pelo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hand-drier
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

हाथ सुखाने की मशीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ومن ناحية أكثر جفافا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

рука -осушитель
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mão de cabelo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

হাতে শুষ্ক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Sèche-mains
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tangan kering
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Händetrockner
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ハンドドライヤー
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

손 건조기
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tangan-drier
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tay khô
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கை உலர்த்தி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हाताने वाळवणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

el kurutucu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mano - essiccatoio
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Ręka do włosów
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

рука - осушувач
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

mână - uscator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χέρι - στεγνωτήριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hand droog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hand tork
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

håndtørker
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAND-DRIER»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hand-drier

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAND-DRIER»

Discover the use of hand-drier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hand-drier and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Deadly Detention
When The hand drier sTopped my Top body was dry and warm and my legs were nexT. I probably pushed The buTTon 20 Times before Turning The drier onTo my lasT leg. As I finished, The drier sTarTed To spark. Suddenly The whole Thing ...
Charlie McCarthy, Connie McCarty, 2003
2
Intervention and Support for Parents and Carers of Children ...
Preoccupations and sensory experiences: to help him to get used to the noise of the hand drier, they decided to use a 'desensitization' approach. First they tape- recorded the noise of a hand drier. They also recorded other household noises ...
Barry Wright, Christopher Williams, 2007
3
Breakbeat
He can hear the hand drier turn on. But he's completely inside his own head and none of it really reaches him. The door slams closed. The hand drier stops. Then he hears a sound that does break into his conscious mind. The stall door closing  ...
Rod Duncan, 2004
4
Barrier-Free Design
reached from the sink — there simply is not enough room to install a hand drier in this space. (Figure 15.2 shows how the positioning of the hand towel too far forward can unbalance the disabled user — possibly causing them to topple off the ...
James Holmes-Seidle, 2012
5
Cleanroom Technology: Fundamentals of Design, Testing and ...
Hands can be dried with a non- linting towel or a hand drier. If a hand drier is used, the best type is one that does not disturb the dirt on the floor. Cleanroom hot-air hand dryers are available, as the type found in ordinary toilets can emit greater ...
W. Whyte, 2010
6
Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment: Operational Guide to the ...
Hand-drying In a comparison of paper towels versus an electrical hand drier, it may be irrelevant to use a standardised test based on the technical properties of the paper such as mass, absorption power and tensile strength, if the actual ...
Jeroen Guinée, 2002
7
Offences Against the Person
The case of DPP v K54 would suggest that it does. In that case, the D had poured acid into a hand-drier, which, when operated squirted the acid over the V. It was held that this could amount to an assault for the purposes of s 47 of the OAPA.
Emanuel Rosen, 1999
8
Criminal Law Directions
On hearing footsteps outside, he panicked and threw the acid in a hand drier, the nozzle of which was pointing upwards. When another pupil used the hand drier, acid was blown into his face. The Divisional Court held that the defendant was ...
Nicola Monaghan, 2012
9
Popular Mechanics
on leaving. Passengers boarding the car in the neutral zone are given blue identification slips which they give the conductor "on getting off, in place of the second fare, which they are not required to pay. ELECTRIC HAND DRIER BUILT INTO ...
10
Popular Mechanics
ELECTRIC HAND DRIER SUPPLANTS TOWELS Drying the hands by means of a current of warm air is a modern sanitary device recently installed in a Washington office building. The electric hand drier is an upright cabinet about 3 ft . high.

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAND-DRIER»

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1
Bernard Trafford: Politics is like a dodgy hand-drier - a horrendous …
Last weekend, in a Devon pub with my old Dad, I encountered a poorly maintained hand-drier in the gents. It made a horrendous racket, blew ... «The Journal, Apr 15»
2
Woman sexually assaulted by two men in public toilets in Hanley
Now officers have launched an urgent appeal to trace a woman who is believed to have been using the hand-drier at the time. «Stoke Sentinel, Mar 15»
3
Quiet technology: welcome to your (silent) dream home
... a range of high-performance gadgets that have been made quieter over the last year, including the first quiet domestic hand-drier (the “Baby ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
4
Curse of the faecal fingers
Apparently, if you're in the Gents of a busy pub with the traditional no-soap-and-broken-hand-drier combo, the tap will likely contain so many ... «Red Cross Blogs, Aug 13»
5
Tooth fairy and other lies told by parents to make children behave
... run out of ice cream....there's a princess in your tummy who can only eat vegetables....and there's a baby dragon in the hand-drier who needs ... «Daily Mail, Nov 12»
6
Unbelievable – a hand-drier that actually works
James Dyson said: "Instead of painfully slow evaporation, Dyson Airblade™ creates a high speed sheet of air, the 'blade', which gently ... «Gizmag, Oct 06»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hand-Drier [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hand-drier>. May 2024 ».
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