What's the difference between dryness and wryness?
Dryness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being dry. See Dry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(2) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(3) After evaporation to dryness, the residue is reconstituted in mobile phase.
(4) This therapy is done in three stages: (1) dryness (assessment and detoxification); (2) sobriety (achieving stable abstinence); and (3) wellness (using sobriety as a basis for personal growth and intimacy.
(5) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(6) The main clinical neurological features were proximal lower limb weakness (100%), depressed tendon reflexes (94%) and dryness of the mouth (66%).
(7) Degree of atrophy correlated with physical thinness (p less than 0.01), low parity (p less than 0.01) and dryness on vaginal examination (p less than 0.001).
(8) Although there were great variations in individual responses, as a group these subjects preferred nonpreserved drops to reduce their symptoms of dryness.
(9) There were no significant differences in sputum production, sputum thickness, dyspnea, or mouth dryness among the 3 treatment periods.
(10) Cimetidine was extracted from alkalized plasma with ethyl acetate, washed once over hydrochloric acid, re-extracted into ethyl acetate, and the organic phase was evaporated to dryness.
(11) Up to 1 mL of plasma containing 2-MSP and an internal standard was extracted with 3 mL of methylene chloride, usually twice, evaporated to dryness, resuspended in mobile phase, and chromatographed on two 15-cm C8 reversed-phase LC columns in series.
(12) While vaginal dryness affects enjoyment and desire for intercourse, only dyspareunia was associated with a reduction in the frequency of intercourse.
(13) The observations recorded were the basic patterns of dryness, of infertile or of fertile mucus, and the transitions between patterns of mucus signs.
(14) Two methods for the competitive binding assay were tested: (1) a classical one (method A) defined as a 'two-step competition' because the E2 sample was first incubated alone, and then E2-beta-galactosidase conjugate was added; (2) and a new one (method B) also performed in two steps but in which the E2 sample was evaporated to dryness.
(15) Twenty-nine patients (12.3% of 236) reported unwanted 39 side effects, such as tremor (6.36%), headache (2.54%), dryness of the mouth (1.27%), cough (0.85%), and dizziness (0.85%).
(16) In some cases there was a marked additional fall of arterial pressure in the orthostatic position, a sensation of dryness in the mouth, weakness and mild somnolence.
(17) The most frequent side-effects were: tremor of bands, polydipsia, polyuria, increase in appetite, dryness of mouth, general muscular weakness and memory reduction.
(18) The acetone is taken to dryness and the residue is dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide.
(19) The substance is extracted from acidified plasma into benzene, the extract is evaporated to dryness and the residue is methylated with an alcohol-free solution of diazomethane and submitted to chromatography on a glass column packed with 3% OV-17.
(20) Troublesome complications were seen in 18 (36 per cent) patients, namely intermittent velopharyngeal incompetence in five (10 per cent), pharyngeal dryness in 11 (22 per cent) and loss of taste in five (10 per cent).
Wryness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moulton, with characteristic wryness, declared: "The day started reasonably.
(2) "I have a brother with me everywhere I go – never any others in the venue so I might as well increase the numbers a bit," he says, wryness seeping off the text pane.
(3) But while the Chicago trio – singer-guitarist Zack Weil, bassist Kevin Cribbin and drummer Kyle Reynolds – play on the tropes of Beavis & Butt-head’s genre of choice, they do it with a knowing wryness.
(4) The congratulatory tweet Kreis sent Mike Petke’s way for his Supporters Shield win may have had a little wryness about it when he considered the roles Fabian Espindola, Jamison Olave and Johnny Steele had played as first team players for the regular season champions.
(5) 'I'm not the slowest writer that you know,' he admits, adding with characteristic wryness: 'For better or for worse, by the way.
(6) His speed of reaction, his excitability, his wryness and detachment made him, too, an ideal editor for the Evelyn Waugh diaries (1976), though Davie himself was what he called "a middle-stump Anglican".