wet
湿润,湿的,湿润的,湿式
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Definitions
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wet·ter, wet·test.
- : moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- : in a liquid form or state: wet paint.
- : characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid.
- : moistened or dampened with rain; rainy: Wet streets make driving hazardous.
- : allowing or favoring the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet town.
- : characterized by frequent rain, mist, etc.: the wet season.
- : laden with a comparatively high percent of moisture or vapor, especially water vapor: There was a wet breeze from the west.
- : Informal. intoxicated. marked by drinking: a wet night.
- : using water or done under or in water, as certain chemical, mining, and manufacturing processes.
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- : something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture: The wet from the earth had made the basement unlivable.
- : damp weather; rain: Stay out of the wet as much as possible.
- : a person in favor of allowing the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
- : Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. wetback.
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wet or wet·ted, wet·ting.
- : to make wet, as by moistening or soaking: Wet your hands before soaping them.
- : to urinate on or in: The dog had wet the carpet.
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wet or wet·ted, wet·ting.
- : to become wet: Dampness may cause plastered walls to wet. My jacket has wet through.
- : to urinate.
Phrases
- wet behind the ears
- wet blanket
- wet one's whistle
- all wet
- get one's feet wet
- like (wet as) a drowned rat
- mad as a hornet (wet hen)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Ken Chapman flies a strange-looking helicopter for Erickson Incorporated called an S-64 Aircrane, and to get the wet stuff on board, all he has to do is submerge a snorkel about 18 inches deep in a body of water.
While fire is a normal and necessary part of much of California’s forest and rangelands, the region’s trend toward heightened wet and dry extremes, coupled with overall warmer conditions, make the state especially primed for high-intensity burns.
The MJO travels eastward along the equator as winds push warm, wet air high into the atmosphere, where the air dries out, cools and descends back toward the surface.
I took a hose to the pack for a few minutes, and some of my outer layers got wet through the zippers.
So don’t think you’re totally safe because, if something failed, this area will get wet.
Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.
Have you noticed there are some people who would love to put a big wet blanket on all of this?
After she “got her feet wet,” Knox began writing under her own name.
If those dry counties get wet, those border stores could find their revenue drying up.
A September poll found 79 percent of likely voters “believe that counties should decide for themselves whether to be wet or dry.”
He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.
Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
The farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."
No; they shall stay at home, and never learn anything, sooner than go and get wet.
Her fat red cheeks would quiver with emotion, and be wet with briny tears, over the sorrows of Mr. Trollope's heroines.