Drying vs. Dehydration

Dryingnoun

The act of drying.

Dryingnoun

A method of food preservation by removing water.

Dryingadjective

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

Dryingadjective

Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

Drying

Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid. This process is often used as a final production step before selling or packaging products.

Dehydrationnoun

The act or process of removing water from something.

Dehydrationnoun

The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Dehydrationnoun

The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

Dehydrationnoun

dryness resulting from the removal of water

Dehydrationnoun

depletion of bodily fluids

Dehydrationnoun

the process of extracting moisture

Dehydration

In physiology, dehydration is a lack of total body water, with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes. It occurs when free water loss exceeds free water intake, usually due to exercise, disease, or high environmental temperature.