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dry run

noun

Etymology

From dry (“impotent; harmless”) + run. First attested in print in 1941, but apparently much older in spoken English.

  1. derived from *h₃reyH-✻ — “to boil, churn”
  2. inherited from *rinnaną✻ — “to run”
  3. derived from rinna — “to run”
  4. inherited from rinnan
  5. inherited from runnen
  6. formed as dry run — “dry + run”

Definitions

  1. A practice or rehearsal

    A practice or rehearsal; especially, one that goes through all the motions of a physical process but without the raw material or workpiece present.

    • They did a dry run of the demonstration before showing it to the CEO.
    • When the dry run mode of a machine tool control is on, the machine can move rapidly because it is cutting only air, not metal. The operator can do a dry run and verify that the motions look correct.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dry run. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA