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Wet \Wet\, n. [AS. w[=ae]ta. See Wet, a.] [1913 Webster]
Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree. [1913 Webster] Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather. [1913 Webster]
A dram; a drink. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Wet \Wet\ (w[e^]t), a. [Compar. Wetter; superl. Wettest.] [OE. wet, weet, AS. w[=ae]t; akin to OFries. w[=e]t, Icel. v[=a]tr, Sw. v[*a]t, Dan. vaad, and E. water. [root]137. See Water.] [1913 Webster]
Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. "Wet cheeks." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season. "Wet October's torrent flood." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
(Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed. [1913 Webster]
Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] --Prior. [1913 Webster] Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc. Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty. [1913 Webster]
Wet \Wet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wet (rarely Wetted); p. pr. & vb. n. Wetting.] [AS. w[=ae]tan.] To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth. "[The scene] did draw tears from me and wetted my paper." --Burke. [1913 Webster] Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. --Milton. [1913 Webster] To wet one's whistle, to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles. --Walton. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wet adj
1 covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather" [ant: dry]
2 supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county" [ant: dry]
3 producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: lactating] [ant: dry]
4 consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
5 very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy] n : wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window" [syn: moisture]

Verb

1 cause to become wet; "Wet your face" [ant: dry]
2 make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed" [also: wetting, wetted, wettest, wetter]

Moby Thesaurus

Scotch mist, apish, asinine, asperge, batty, bedew, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bespatter, besprinkle, blood rain, bogginess, boggy, boozy, brainless, buffoonish, canned, cat-and-dog weather, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, dabble, daffy, daft, damp, dampen, dampish, dampness, dank, dash, dazed, deluge, dew, dewiness, dewy, dirty weather, disguised, dizzy, doting, douche, douse, draft, dram, drench, drenched, drink, dripping, drizzle, drop, drown, drunk, dumb, evening mist, exudation, fall, fatuitous, fatuous, fenny, fill, flaky, flurry, fogginess, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, gargle, goofy, gout of rain, gulled, guzzle, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humor, idiotic, imbecile, impregnate, inane, inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irrigate, jigger, jolt, kooky, lave, libation, loony, mad, make water, marshiness, marshy, maudlin, mist, mistiness, misty rain, mizzle, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness, moisture, monsoon, moronic, muggy, nip, number one, nutty, paddle, patter, pee, pee-pee, peg, piddle, piss, pitter-patter, pixilated, plastered, potation, potion, precipitation, predominance of Aquarius, pull, pump bilge, rain, raindrop, rainfall, raininess, rains, rainwater, rainy, rainy day, rainy season, rainy weather, rinse, roric, roriferous, round, round of drinks, sappy, saturate, saturated, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sheet of rain, shot, shower, showeriness, silly, sip, slobber, slop, slosh, slug, snifter, snort, soak, soaked, soaking, sodden, soddenness, sogginess, soggy, sop, soppiness, sopping, soppy, souse, soused, sparge, spatter, spell of rain, spend a penny, splash, splatter, sponge, spot, spray, spring rains, sprinkle, stale, sticky, stormy weather, stupid, suck, sup, swampiness, swampy, swash, swig, swill, syringe, tacky, thoughtless, tot, undried, unfrozen hydrometeor, urinate, wacky, wash, water, wateriness, wee-wee, wet down, wet season, wet weather, wetness, wettish, wettishness, witless

Acronyms

WET Western European Time [+0000] (TZ, WDT)

English

Etymology

Old English wǣt

Pronunciation

  • , /wɛt/, /wEt/
  • Rhymes with: -ɛt

Homophones

Adjective

  1. Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
    I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
  2. Of weather or a day, rainy.
    It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
  3. Made up of liquid or moisture.
    Water is wet.
  4. Of a person, ineffectual.
    Don't be so wet.
  5. Of a woman, sexually aroused.
    He got me all wet.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

of an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid
of weather: rainy (See rainy)
made of liquid or moisture
of a person: ineffectual
of a woman: sexually aroused
  • Dutch: nat
  • Finnish: märkä

Noun

  1. Liquid or moisture.
  2. Rainy weather.
    Don't go out in the wet.
  3. In the context of "UK|pejorative": A moderate Conservative.

Translations

pejorative: moderate Conservative

Verb

  1. To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  2. To urinate accidentally in or on.
    Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
  3. To become wet

Derived terms

Translations

cover or impregnate with liquid
urinate accidentally in or on
become wet

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • /ʋɛt/

Noun

  1. law (rule)
  2. law (body of rules declared and/or enforced by a government)
  3. law

Derived terms

See also

Wet could refer to:
  • The condition of being liquid or being covered in a liquid.
  • Wet, an album released in 1979 by Barbra Streisand.
  • The wets, moderate members of the British Conservative Party.
  • Phencyclidine (PCP), a dissociative anesthetic.
  • Wet, a magazine about "gourmet bathing" from the late 1970s.
  • Wet, a type of stew used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
  • an area that allows the sale of alcohol, or an opponent of Prohibition (opposite of dry)
  • Wet (Video Game) An upcoming video game developed and published by Sierra.
WET may stand for:

See also

  • Wetting, getting two different materials to adhere (stick) to each other.
  • Wet Wet Wet, successful Scottish pop band of the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Wet dream, seminal ejaculation during sleep.
  • Wetback, derogatory term for a Mexican laborer who illegally enters the United States by swimming or wading the Rio Grande River.
  • Wet-on-wet, a painting technique
  • Wet nurse, a woman who breast feeds a baby that is not her own.
  • Wet etching, removal of material by immersing the wafer in a liquid bath of chemical etchant.
  • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer general and politician.
  • Wet & Wild: Slippery When Wet, ninth and last video in the Wet & Wild series of videos produced by Playboy magazine
  • Wet bulb globe temperature, to measure the possible evaporation in natural ventilation conditions
  • Wet artificial life, artificial life created in water (or other solvent) based chemical substrates.
  • Wet clean, process of using strong acids to remove damage from the surface of semiconductors.
  • Wet work, euphemism for murder or assassination by governmental agencies that came into use during the Cold War.
  • Wet grinder, popular tools in the South Indian kitchen used to make paste out of soaked grains and lentils.
  • Wet season, seasons in which the average rainfall in a region is significantly increased.
  • Subpreputial wetness, lanolin-like wetness commonly found in under the prepuce in most male and female individuals who have not undergone circumcision, as well as in the female vulva area.
  • Wet cell, kind of electrochemical cell
  • Adequately wet, environmental term referring to asbestos containing material that is sufficiently mixed or penetrated with liquid to prevent the release of particulates
  • Wet-folded, an origami technique
  • Wet electrons
  • Wet dock, dock where the level of water is maintained
  • Wet Congress, condition achieved in the 1932 election where a proper majority was set in the US congress to overturn the Volstead Act, ending prohibition.
  • Wetting layer
  • Wet sump, lubricating oil management design for four-stroke piston internal combustion engines which uses a built-in reservoir for oil
  • Wet from Birth, fourth studio album by the indie rock band The Faint.
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket, American folk pop band.
  • Wet T-shirt contest, form of beauty contest.
  • Wet and messy fetishism, form of sexual fetishism.
  • Wet Mountain Valley, located in Custer County in south-central Colorado.
  • Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1943 to 1946.
  • Wetted aspect ratio (wing), good indication of the aerodynamic efficiency of an aircraft.
  • Wet feet/dry feet, 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966.
  • I Get Wet, debut album from metal solo artist Andrew W. K.
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland, series of National Parks stretching for 450 km along the north east coast of Australia
  • My Soul Is Wet, the only album by the band Mutha's Day Out.
  • My Soul Is Wet (song), second track and the title track to the only album released by Mutha's Day Out.
  • Wet Dream (album), first solo album by Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi's third and most commercially successful album.
  • Wet Hot American Summer, 2001 feature film
  • Wetted surface, a fluid mechanics term indicating the area of an object exposed to the fluid in question.
wet in German: WET
wet in French: WET
wet in Italian: WET
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