Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water.
- adjective Not yet dry or firm.
- adjective Stored in or prepared with water or other liquids.
- adjective Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents.
- adjective Involving the performance of experiments rather than the design or analysis of them.
- adjective Rainy, humid, or foggy.
- adjective Characterized by frequent or heavy precipitation.
- adjective Informal Allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- noun Something that wets; moisture.
- noun Rainy or snowy weather.
- noun Informal One who supports the legality of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
- intransitive verb To make wet; dampen.
- intransitive verb To make (a bed or one's clothes) wet by urinating.
- intransitive verb To become wet.
- intransitive verb To urinate.
- idiom (all wet) Entirely mistaken.
- idiom (wet behind the ears) Inexperienced; green.
- idiom (wet (one's) whistle) To take a drink.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with or permeated by a moist or fluid substance; charged with moisture: as, a wet sponge; wet land; wet cheeks; a wet painting (one on which the paint is still semi-fluid).
- Filled with or containing a supply of water: as, a wet dock; a wet meter. See phrases below.
- Consisting of water or other liquid; of a watery nature.
- Characterized by rain; rainy; drizzly; showery: as, wet weather; a wet season (used especially with reference to tropical or semitropical countries, in which the year is divided into wet and dry seasons).
- Drenched or drunk with liquor; tipsy.
- In U. S. polit. slang, opposed to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors: as, a wet town. Compare
dry , 13. - To make wet; moisten, drench, or soak with water or other fluid; dip or soak in a liquid.
- To moisten with drink; hence, figuratively, to inaugurate or celebrate by a drink or a treat of liquor: as, to
wet a new hat. - noun That which makes wet, as water and other liquids; moisture; specifically, rain.
- noun The act of wetting; specifically, a wetting of the throat with drink; a drink or dram of liquor; indulgence in drinking.
- noun In U. S. polit. slang, an opponent of prohibition; one who favors the traffic in liquor.
- noun A Middle English form of
wit .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface
- adjective Very damp; rainy.
- adjective (Chem.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- adjective Slang Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
- adjective etc. See under
Blanket ,Dock , etc. - adjective [Slang] intoxicating liquors.
- noun Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
- noun Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
- noun Slang A dram; a drink.
- transitive verb 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
- transitive verb [Colloq.] to moisten one's throat; to drink a dram of liquor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
- adjective Of weather or a day,
rainy . - adjective Made up of
liquid ormoisture . - adjective informal Of a person,
ineffectual . - adjective slang Of a woman or girl,
sexually aroused . - adjective slang, of a person
Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of arookie .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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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.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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They move like this, and you know, you hear the term wet storm, dry storms.
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Liam Hartz, a Marshfield charter school student, used the phrase wet fur'' to describe the rays' exterior.
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The Lord will rain for ever and ever, and, on that day, the Earth shall be wet and His name wet.
Getting Godless Bill Yarrow 2011
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Their house specialty was what they called a wet burrito.
The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods. Ann Althouse 2008
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It's what we call a wet wing, which means gasoline is in the wing tank in the wing itself.
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It's what we call a wet wing, which means gasoline is in the wing tank, in the wing itself.
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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.
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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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However, this WET (“Write Everything Twice”) design is not the real API design antipattern I want to discuss.
API Design Antipattern: Leaky Abstractions David Biesack 2025
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His attacker survived but, fearing reprisal, Evan left the camp and moved in with a woman who was living in a “wet house” – a community where drug addicts live together.
My friend was a popular, promising artist - how did he end up on the streets of Portland, addicted and dangerous? Laura Barton 2024
adoarns commented on the word wet
In medicine, refers to someone that is fluid-overloaded, as from heart failure. "I got called on a patient having trouble breathing. When I examined her, she sounded wet, so I gave her some Lasix."
January 26, 2008