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TUMBL-dreye-uh/ˈtʌmbl ˌdraɪə/

A tumble drier (id: tumble-drier) is a machine that dries washing in hot tumbling air (UK; also tumble dryer; US dryer). A washing line is outdoors and a clothes horse is an indoor frame, so empty the lint filter on the machine. Drier and dryer are both seen; this course uses tumble drier. Countable.

Meaning

A machine that dries washing by tumbling it in hot air (UK; also tumble dryer).

Examples

• “Put the towels in the tumble drier; it is raining outside.”
• “The tumble drier is in the kitchen because we have no utility room.”
• “Do not tumble-dry the wool jumper; use the clothes horse.”

Good to know

a tumble drier (UK; also tumble dryer). US: a dryer. Contrast: a washing line / a clothes horse.

Near in meaning

tumble dryer, dryer

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