wet
/wɛt/
noun/wɛt/
/wɛt/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · noun
Liquid or moisture.
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Meaning 2 · noun
Rainy weather.
“Don't go out in the wet.”
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Meaning 3 · noun
Rainy season. (often capitalized)
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Meaning 4 · noun
(UK politics) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
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Meaning 5 · noun
An alcoholic drink.
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Meaning 6 · noun
One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
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Meaning 7 · noun
(in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
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Meaning 8 · verb
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
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Meaning 9 · verb
To accidentally urinate in or on.
“Johnny wets the bed several times a week.”
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Meaning 10 · verb
To make or become wet.
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Meaning 11 · verb
(soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
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Meaning 12 · verb
To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
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Meaning 13 · verb
To kill or seriously injure.
“Wet 'em up!”
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Meaning 14 · adjective
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
“Water is wet.”
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Meaning 15 · adjective
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
“I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.”
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Meaning 16 · adjective
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
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Meaning 17 · adjective
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
“This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.”
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Meaning 18 · adjective
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
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Meaning 19 · adjective
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
“It’s going to be wet tomorrow.”
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Meaning 20 · adjective
Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
“That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.”
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Meaning 21 · adjective
(of women) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
“He got me all wet.”
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Meaning 22 · adjective
Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
“Don’t be so wet.”
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Meaning 23 · adjective
(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
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Meaning 24 · adjective
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
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Meaning 25 · adjective
Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
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Meaning 26 · adjective
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
“the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed”
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Meaning 27 · adjective
Involving assassination or "wet work".
“a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff”
How this word is used
- General “Don't go out in the wet.”
- General “Johnny wets the bed several times a week.”
- General “Wet 'em up!”
- Everyday “Water is wet.”
- General “I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.”
- General “This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.”
- General “It’s going to be wet tomorrow.”
- General “That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.”
- General “He got me all wet.”
- General “Don’t be so wet.”
- General “the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed”
- General “a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff”
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