Thesaurus / dry run
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Would you describe for the record what is meant in marksmanship terms by a dry run?
WARREN COMMISSION (11 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. XI (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
After the eggs have been in the sun all day remove indoors and if dry run through a cleaned coffee mill.
TOURING AFOOTCLAUDE POWELL FORDYCE
Unfortunately, however, for the inhabitants the Dry Run has frequently become very wet.
THE STRAND MAGAZINEVARIOUS
It was an unpainted square cottage and stood bare on the sod at the edge of Dry Run ravine.
A SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDERHAMLIN GARLAND
Then the truck was past, en route to the mesa for the day's dry run.
THE SCARLET LAKE MYSTERYHAROLD LELAND GOODWIN
WORDS RELATED TO DRY RUN
- alertness
- anticipation
- arrangement
- background
- base
- basis
- build-up
- construction
- dry run
- education
- establishment
- evolution
- expectation
- fitting
- foresight
- formation
- foundation
- gestation
- getting ready
- groundwork
- homework
- incubation
- lead time
- making ready
- manufacture
- measure
- plan
- precaution
- preparedness
- preparing
- provision
- putting in order
- qualification
- readying
- rehearsal
- rundown
- safeguard
- schoolwork
- study
- substructure
- training
- tryout
- workout
- alertness
- anticipation
- arrangement
- background
- base
- basis
- build-up
- construction
- dry run
- education
- establishment
- evolution
- expectation
- fitting
- foresight
- formation
- foundation
- gestation
- getting ready
- groundwork
- homework
- incubation
- lead time
- making ready
- manufacture
- measure
- plan
- precaution
- preparedness
- preparing
- provision
- putting in order
- qualification
- readying
- rehearsal
- rundown
- safeguard
- schoolwork
- study
- substructure
- training
- tryout
- workout
- analysis
- approval
- assessment
- attempt
- blue book
- catechism
- check
- comp
- confirmation
- corroboration
- countdown
- criterion
- dry run
- elimination
- essay
- evaluation
- exam
- experiment
- final
- fling
- go
- inquest
- inquiry
- inspection
- investigation
- lick
- oral
- ordeal
- pop quiz
- preliminary
- probation
- probing
- proof
- questionnaire
- scrutiny
- search
- shibboleth
- standard
- substantiation
- touchstone
- trial
- trial and error
- trial run
- try
- tryout
- verification
- yardstick
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