wet
IPA: wˈɛt
noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- Rainy weather.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (Britain, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
verb
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- Misspelling of whet. [(transitive) To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.]
adjective
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- (Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
- (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of WET; containing much repetition.
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Examples of "wet" in Sentences
- Wet the sponge.
- My clothes are wet from water.
- Note the wet meadows and the stone.
- Rain, who filiest the skins, wet our raiment.
- Their house specialty was what they called a wet burrito.
- The centre of the bog is wet with stagnant water in places.
- The surface is wet, glossy and slimy especially in wet weather.
- Someone splashed him from the water and his inhaler got a little wet.
- Phlegm was the humor identified with water, since both were cold and wet.
- They move like this, and you know, you hear the term wet storm, dry storms.
- Rain is rare during the summer months, but the winters are changeable and wet.
- It's what we call a wet wing, which means gasoline is in the wing tank in the wing itself.
- It's what we call a wet wing, which means gasoline is in the wing tank, in the wing itself.
- The Lord will rain for ever and ever, and, on that day, the Earth shall be wet and His name wet.
- Liam Hartz, a Marshfield charter school student, used the phrase wet fur'' to describe the rays' exterior.
- It's what we call a wet wing, which means gasoline is in the wing tank in the wing itself and in reality, we were able to get that.
- The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud.
- This was a term wet propagandists had found convenient in their effort to stamp the mark of greed on Prohibition supporters like Asa Candler of Coca-Cola.
- I can see that there's a watery reflection down here, so the houseboats that you see here are what we call wet-slipped boats, which means they are actually in the water all the time.
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