Definition of wet in English:

wet

adjectivewetter, wettest wɛtwɛt

1Covered or saturated with water or another liquid.
湿的，潮的，潮湿的
she followed, slipping on the wet rock
她跟在后面，踩在潮湿的岩石上摔倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- By nightfall there were 20 climbers crowding the shelter and the walls were covered with wet clothes.
- I'm noticing that the floor is wet - entirely covered in dark liquid.
- To avoid tissue dehydration during measurements, the walls of the pressure chamber were covered with wet filter paper.
- His wheel rims were already wet from the water already in the road and, if anything, he continued to pick up speed.
- Tears slipped down his cheeks leaving wet splotches on the cover.
- My little brother Andrew stopped in mid-step and wiped his mouth still wet with water, as the adults looked at him in absolute surprise.
- Sarah was cold and her clothes where wet and covered in mud.
- So managing the water from wet cutting is well worth it.
- Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
- You can also cover them with wet towels or sheets and fan them until it is possible to get them to a hospital or doctor.
- The main type of central heating system is wet - where hot water is circulated through pipes and goes to radiators with valves that control the amount of time it spends there.
- Immediately remove clothing that has become saturated with wet concrete.
- Their bodies were bloody, contorted and covered with wet leaves.
- The sidewalks are always wet and covered in magazines and flyers no one bothers to pick up.
- I told my son to get my garden gloves, and then we covered ourselves in wet towels and got her out but by then it was too late.
- Her outfit is utterly sopping wet and covered with sludge; after all, she had to cut across more than a few people's backyard to get here.
- Cover them with wet newspaper to keep them moist while dormant.
- I have seen them wet with sea water, glistening in the sun.
- His vision swam and blurred in front of him, the land seeming to be covered in wet lumps all around him.
- The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period.
Synonyms
damp, dampened, moist, moistened
soaked, drenched, saturated, wet through, sopping/dripping/wringing wet, sopping, dripping, soggy
waterlogged, squelchy, marshy, boggy, swampy, miry
1. 1.1 (of the weather) rainy.
  （天气）下雨的；雨天的；多雨的
  a wet, windy evening
  一个下雨又刮风的夜晚。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
  Another spell of mild, wet and fairly windy weather is expected on Thursday.
  Despite wet and windy weather last week, the vehicle terminal at the port here reached a new record, handling 37 containers per working hour.
  But the agency says that if this prediction proves correct, it might only cause a problem if the cold weather is also wet - causing heavy snowfall in the hills.
  wind is important in spreading diseases: for example bacterial blight is spread in wet, windy weather.
  Luck they had indoor entertainment as weather was extremely wet and windy.
  But with brighter, wet and windy weather forecast for tomorrow, motorists in the county should not have to face the fog again.
  The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole.
  The Asian Garden thrives in winter, when the weather is wet and cool.
  Sometimes they were sent them home early if the weather was too wet, but only once did they get sent home because it was too hot!
  Staking or supporting early in the growing season is best and can help direct plant growth, encourage better flower displays and prevent damage during wet and windy weather.
  That weekend it was dreadful weather, it was wet, it was cold, it was windy, and that just made our emotions even more hard to bear.
  It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful.
  What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure.
  It will be mainly dry for a time on Wednesday, with sunny spells, but wet and windy weather will develop later.
  The weather is fairly wet but so far has not been very cold which is a good thing.
  The weather was wet, but visibility was still good.
  But normally if the weather was wet, my Lord, no you wouldn't have done it satisfactorily at all.
  A word of warning, if the weather is wet, the lane down to these pegs, normally easy, can become dangerous!
  About 10,000 people braved wet and windy weather to attend the ceremony at the Margraten cemetery in the southern Netherlands.
  Synonyms
  rainy, raining, pouring, teeming, showery, drizzly, drizzling
  damp, humid, dank, misty
2. 1.2 (of paint, ink, plaster, or a similar substance) not yet having dried or hardened.
  （油漆、墨水、灰泥或类似物质）未干的；未凝固的
  the waterproofer can easily be washed off while it is still wet
  Example sentencesExamples
  The smell of fresh breads, wet ink, melting glass, new silks and a lot of currency drifted about from the many open stalls.
  The sign, on the front step of the home in London Road, Benfleet, had been placed there to warn people about wet paint on the newly decorated front door.
  Like wet plaster of Paris hardening in a glass jar, salt crystals that have incorporated water can also expand to crack their container.
  The one working on the side seemed to comb the wet plaster into horizontal furrows, while the one working on the back preferred a smooth finish.
  Using the ink-soaked felt, tap it over the tag while the gold ink is still wet.
  The wall was splayed with fresh graffiti and the post was dripping with wet spray paint.
  He would cut a negative into wet sand and pour plaster into the sand mold.
  The characteristic aspect of Christina's style is that of using the fluid motion of wet paint in a graceful pattern, before letting it finally dry.
  It remains to be seen whether the glitter will stay stuck to the prints as I just sprinkled it onto the wet ink.
  Masking tape takes ages to apply, it never comes off cleanly and it doesn't even mask off wet paint effectively.
  The method is similar to what is called dry fresco in Europe, as the paints are applied to a dry surface, not wet plaster as in true fresco.
  Oil paint is a wet mixture of pigments in an oily medium.
  And I remember when it was here in Atlanta, you wanted to be careful about leaning against a post for fear the paint was still wet.
  While the paint and paper are still wet, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the painted section, making sure the wrap is wrinkled.
  The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off.
  A classic fresco is an original image that was painted directly on a wall of wet plaster using natural pigments.
  This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink.
  You can also use the cleaner for wet paint on clothing, but launder clothes immediately after application.
  Painting into wet plaster with water soluble pigments is one of the most difficult of all challenges a painter can face.
  Instead of using the tried and tested method (egg tempera on wet plaster), however, he used a paint of his own invention.
  Synonyms
  sticky, not set, not hardened, not hard, tacky
  fresh
  aqueous, watery, sloppy
3. 1.3 (of a baby or young child) having urinated in its nappy or underwear.
  （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的
  the baby was wet and needed changing
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unless I can conquer my competitive instincts, there'll be a lot of very wet toddlers and it'll all end in tears.
  Someone once said that the only person who welcomes change is a wet baby.
  I believe there is no baby there, but I'm willing to have a wet infant hauled into view.
  Anny picks up the wet nappy and tiptoes out of the room.
  They have to stay in a wet nappy longer and wear clothes with food down the front.
4. 1.4 Involving the use of water or liquid.
  用水（或其他液体）的；用水（或其他液体）加工的
  wet methods of photography
  湿式摄影法。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Kistler was trying to prove that a gel contains a continuous solid network of the same size and shape as the wet gel.
  Known as the wet method, a building is sprayed with water as it is leveled.
  Consider the following precautions when selecting a wet cleaning method.
  Typically, the choice of a wet method requires specific knowledge about the sample as well as the level of accuracy required.
  Tissue P status was analysed after wet digestion by the molybdate blue method.
  Another solution to this problem is to use wet methods or ‘dustless’ vacuum tools.
5. 1.5Nautical (of a ship) liable to take in water over her bows or sides.
  〔航海〕（轮船）易（从船首或舷侧）进水的
2British informal Showing a lack of forcefulness or strength of character; feeble.
〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的
they thought the cadets were a bit wet
他们认为这些军校学员有点软弱无力。
Synonyms
feeble, silly, weak, foolish, inept, ineffective, ineffectual, effete, soft, namby-pamby, timid, timorous, spiritless, cowardly, spineless
informal sissy, sissified, pathetic, drippy, wimpish, wimpy, weedy, daft, chicken, yellow-bellied
1. 2.1 Conservative with liberal tendencies, especially as regarded by right-wing Conservatives.
  （尤指被右翼保守派认为）具有自由主义倾向的保守派的
  they came across as the most liberal or wet members of the government
  Example sentencesExamples
  Call me a wet Guardianista liberal, but a bit of peace, love and understanding wouldn't go astray.
  I think there's a good chunk of wet liberal New Labour angst behind it all.
  As a died-in-the-wool wet liberal, I'm coming from an altogether different place than Mr. Philips.
  I'm of the mind this is a good thing, but I am a wet wooly liberal.
  I know some wet urban liberals who are thinking of voting for the Maori Party.
  The wet Liberals are a pathetic and spineless bunch who are wholly subservient to government discipline and their own ambition in equal measure.
  To the wet bleeding heart liberals, I say get a life and do something useful for a change.
3informal (of a country or region or of its legislation) allowing the free sale of alcoholic drink.
〈非正式〉（一个国家、地区或其立法）允许出售烈性酒的，不禁酒的
1. 3.1 (of a person) addicted to or drinking alcohol.
  （人）嗜好酒的
  our programme depends on our willingness to help other alcoholics, both wet and dry

verbwetted, wets, wetting wɛtwɛt

[with object]

1Cover or touch with liquid; moisten.
把…弄湿；使潮湿
he wetted a finger and flicked through the pages
他蘸湿一根手指翻书。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dip both ends into the liquid candle wax so the whole thing is wetted, then wait for it to harden (or chill it in your drink.)
- Of course, plenty of travelers also arrive via the tarmac, ready to reel in monster tuna, trek the hills, and take in the views without wetting a toe.
- Her short black hair had been carefully wetted down, and her usual leathers covered the intense fighter's form.
- The waterskin slipped through Darteil's fingers, wetting his shirt.
- She went to the sink and wet a towel to clean Matty's face which was covered with spaghetti.
- Water dripped from the ceiling, creating puddles, wetting the carpet and ruining the already rotted woodwork.
- Avoid wetting the foliage and thin out overcrowded growth.
- He screwed up his eyes and studied the clouds, wet a finger and held it up, picked a blade of grass and felt it between finger and thumb, smelt it.
- If they seem bent and not curled, a good tip is wetting a Q-Tip and touching it to your lashes, before applying the mascara.
- He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi.
- Seconds later, He wet his finger and stuck it in the ear of an unsuspecting TV reporter.
- After the application of the repellent, subjects were instructed not to rub, touch, or wet the treated arm.
- The aspiration is the puff of air that you can feel if you wet your finger and hold it in front of your mouth when you say pot in English.
- Concerned, I checked it and found that it only wet the cover over the pillow and did not seep to the pillow itself.
- Sand was deposited by wind or water, and briefly wetted by liquid water that evaporated, forming the sulfate cement.
- Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano.
- But tension is mounting as recreational fishers complain about not being able to find room on the water to wet their lines.
- Paddy, after a little thought and wet his finger and smudged the trunk of each of the trees.
- She wetted the tip of her finger, counted out five tens and dropped them into the metal money scoop.
- His form slowly turned and he looked at Jessica expectantly, she ran to him, through the mud, soaking her skirts and wetting her hair, then she held him.
Synonyms
dampen, damp, moisten, humidify
sprinkle, spray, splash
soak, saturate, waterlog, flood, deluge, douse, souse, drench
hose down, water, irrigate
technical ret
Scottish &amp Northern English drouk
archaic sop
1. 1.1 (especially of a baby or young child) urinate in or on.
  （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的
  while dreaming the child wet the bed
  那个小孩做梦时尿床了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We find children who are wetting their beds and haven't done it before.
  Enuresis is classed as primary when the child has never been persistently dry through the night and as secondary when the child starts wetting the bed after one year of continence.
  At five years, more than one in six children still wet the bed.
  A few children still have trouble with wetting the bed at night.
  Having large amounts of liquid before going to bed can make most children wet the bed.
  The family should keep track of how many times the child voids during the day and how many nights the child wets the bed.
  His outbursts of anger were so frightening, one of his fellow teachers said, that two children had wet their pants.
  The concept of using an alarm that emits a sound when a child wets the bed was first introduced in 1938.
  If your child still wets the bed regularly, ask the doctor about ways to help decrease this behavior.
  But whenever one of our children wet the bed, he claimed that they were lazy, too lazy to get up, go to the bathroom.
  He still wets the bed during nights not regularly but frequently, mostly during winter when he goes to bed without going to the bathroom.
  ‘One young child wet the bed one night and was forced to walk round with a sandwich board over him the next day saying what he had done,’ she said.
  This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing.
  Alison said one of her children recently wet the bed, so they had to spend the night on the sofa and floor.
  If both parents wet the bed when they were young, it's very likely that their child will as well.
  My six-year-old daughter has started wetting the bed.
  Would you blame a coma victim for wetting the bed?
  Estimates are that 20 per cent of all five-year-olds wet the bed.
  One in ten children is still wetting the bed by the age of five.
  She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly.
2. 1.2wet oneself Urinate involuntarily.
  （自己无法控制地）尿在身上
  she was going to wet herself from fear
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then we turned round and his missus had returned and was wetting herself laughing at us.
  The driver, in so much fear that he probably wet himself, sped away from the courthouse.
  He said his client became uncooperative at the police station after she was stopped from using the toilet and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in front of officers.
  Panic stations alerted, so I soused it avec water, and was sat there wetting myself while trying to dry it with the hairdryer.
  Is it directed by a veteran actor/star who Hollywood wets itself over?
  He had to wear a bag attached to his penis for fear of wetting himself because he could not say he wanted the toilet.
  We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said.
  It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear.
  This was unfortunate for everyone around us as we spent the rest of the week quoting lines from the film and almost wetting ourselves while all else wondered what was going on.
  I know at least one person in the UK will be wetting themselves at the prospect of watching this show every night.
  Sky almost wets herself with glee when he enters the classroom.
  I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted.
  Their ill - treatment of Victoria included beating her with a bicycle chain, tying her up and wrapping her in bin liners to prevent her wetting herself.
  I even remember almost wetting myself once because I wouldn't use the school toilets after I'd heard the tale about the old care-taker who haunted the place.
  For a movie that wets itself over the power of imagination, it doesn't show much creativity of its own.
  However if a child has been wet from birth, always wets himself / herself day and night, or never achieved toilet training, then it is essential to seek medical help.
  Thankfully when the doctor tried to set my bones I conveniently wet myself and passed out with the pain.
  Many of us are soon going to be afraid of a good belly laugh - for fear of wetting ourselves in public.
  For the last two years, I've been wetting myself when I laugh.
  You can well imagine a young lad, his first time in battle, wetting himself with fear.
3. 1.3dialect Infuse (tea) by pouring on boiling water.
  〈方〉（倒入滚烫的开水）沏（茶）
  she said she'd wet the tea immediately because they must be parched

nounPlural wets wɛtwɛt

1mass noun Liquid that makes something damp.
湿气；潮湿；水分；液体
I could feel the wet of his tears
我可以感觉到他的泪水。
Example sentencesExamples
- There's far too much wet around and I think it's softened my brain.
- Sometimes he looks really cute and appealing, and then others he looks like he's been ridden hard and put away wet.
- We run together down windows, streaming and sobbing and smashed into one big wet.
Synonyms
wetness, damp, dampness, moisture, moistness
clamminess, sogginess
wateriness, water, liquid
1. 1.1the wet Rainy weather.
  下雨天
  the race was held in the wet
  比赛在雨天进行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His head was down and his ears back, his coat somewhat darker with the wet.
  Synonyms
  rain, rains, drizzle, wet/rainy/showery/damp weather, precipitation, spray, dew, damp
2. 1.2British informal count noun A drink.
  〈英，非正式〉酒
  I took a wet from my bottle
  我从瓶中喝了一口酒。
2British informal A person lacking forcefulness or strength of character.
〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的
there are sorts who look like gangsters and sorts who look like wets
Synonyms
namby-pamby, weakling, milksop, Milquetoast, baby
coward, mouse
informal wimp, weed, drip, mummy's boy, mollycoddle, sissy, softie, jellyfish, chicken, yellow-belly, fraidy-cat, scaredy-cat
British informal big girl's blouse, jessie
North American informal candy-ass, cupcake, pantywaist, pussy
Australian/New Zealand informal sook
archaic poltroon
1. 2.1 A Conservative with liberal tendencies.
  具有自由主义倾向的保守派
  the wets favoured a change in economic policy
  Example sentencesExamples
  With her eyes bulged in terror, her face wet with perspiration, and her mouth gaping in a wide O, she didn't look very sultry at all.
  On screen, their national spokesmen and women smile charmingly and portray themselves as decent people who may be a bit wet but are unlike the other politicians.
  On the new US imperialism, he is an impeccable neoconservative; on the death penalty he is a liberal; on the Euro he is with the Tory wets and (some of) New Labour.
  Tory wets will enthuse about social justice and inclusivity like simpering liberals.
  I must say, the Labor Party isn't Robinson Crusoe - the Liberals have got their factions, the wets and the dries, even the Nats - god help us - have got factions as well.
  It was largely as a result of the confused policy direction of the wets that did so much to hasten the Conservative decline in the 1990s.
  I'm a conservative wet if you would like to apply a label.
  Margaret Thatcher used the re-shuffle as an act of terror, exterminating wets and savaging useful fall guys.
  Andretti in the wet on Sunday scored wins in the Skip Barber National double-header at Road
  They should stop telling themselves that it's good enough to be the wets or progressives in political parties which are now openly dedicated to illiberal ends.
  The outspoken wet in a dry, dry Liberal Party was fronting the official celebrations for this week's centenary of female suffrage.
  But he says the divide is no longer between liberals and conservatives, or economic wets and dries.
  For many people it was the death of Liberalism as prominent wets left soon after.
3US A person opposed to the prohibition of alcohol.
〈美〉反禁酒者

Phrases

all wet

Completely wrong.
〈北美〉完全错误的
I may be all wet on this point
Example sentencesExamples
- You don't have to be a ‘Biblical scholar’ to know that what you wrote was all wet.
- Their publishers are all wet about copyright.
- By the way, most people think Roberts is all wet.
- If the polls are all wet and the final vote breaks sharply one way or the other, people will want to claim the election as a historic watershed.
- Jeff actually knows what he's talking about, thinks I'm all wet on this one.
- I suppose we could just thank our lucky stars that all the negative prognostications were all wet and leave it at that.
- Your discussion of the intellectual property debate is all wet.
- No sooner does the Consultant Debunking Unit dip its toe back into the waters of consulting-speak than it stumbles onto jargon that turns out to be all wet.
- But up next, Coke's plans to sell bottled water overseas are all wet.
- Since I'm not an economist, I might be all wet about this.

wet the baby's head

informal Celebrate a baby's birth with a drink, typically an alcoholic one.
〈英，非正式〉以喝酒来庆祝婴儿的出生
Example sentencesExamples
- No, not that, I did that with Muriel, John and Gus last night - you know, went for a drink to celebrate wetting the baby's head.
- We definitely wet the baby's head afterwards, then the team came back to our house.
- It was a busy evening wetting the baby's head, which the father's head knew about the next morning, but he wishes to thank everyone for their kind words, and their help in welcoming the new arrival.
- Your hospital bag is as much a tradition of the childbirth experience as is ‘wetting the baby's head’.
- As for whether I'll be having a traditional boy's night out to wet the baby's head well, I'm always having a boy's night out!
- Perhaps, some time later (as they do in Champagne to bring good fortune) one may be used to wet the baby's head.
- At least I managed to wet the baby's head, even if it was with cola.
- Many of you may want to help her wet the baby's head at the plush casual eatery next to Bar 38, off Coney Street, which is opening this weekend.

wet behind the ears

informal Lacking experience; immature.
〈非正式〉缺乏经验；不成熟的
he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears
Example sentencesExamples
- The peak and valleys paint a visual picture of the sound the newborn universe made when it was still wet behind the ears, a mere 300,000 years after its birth in a big bang.
- When I moved to from the East Coast to California in 1997, I was wet behind the ears, right out of college, and I knew I was kinky.
- Nowadays, 32 seems a bit wet behind the ears to me, but from memory it is about the age that you start to feel like the oldest swinger in town when you step inside a nightclub.
- Tell me son have you ever cut turf before, following up with, it's just that you look a bit wet behind the ears for this job.
- A bit wet behind the ears, and failed to recreate from a place in the starting line-up what he achieved coming off the bench against Tunisia.
- It seems a funny thing to ask, but they are clearly a little wet behind the ears.
- The new breed of politicians should no longer be wet behind the ears and need to start acting like experienced rulers.
- That's not to say that the Green movement is admitting to being wet behind the ears.
- At last I was a specialist in health psychology, but still a bit wet behind the ears professionally.
- I went out as a sort of wet behind the ears completely ignorant 21 year old and spent 18 months in Madagascar.

wet through (or to the skin)

With one's clothes soaked; completely drenched.
（衣服）完全湿透的
she was wet through and felt cold
Example sentencesExamples
- She raised her head, and a rush of air cooled the patch of skin on Alex's shoulder that had been wet through his shirt by her tears.
- He was wet through so took off most of his clothes and emptied his pockets, to let everything dry off.
- By the end of it we were wet to the skin and tired, but happy and all jumped out.
- I think it was this weekend when I woke up to discover that my futon was actually damp, wet through from my sweating into it during the night.
- Then they won't be sitting in classrooms wet through and steaming.
- There were more than 5,000 fans squeezed into the ground and most of them got wet through.
- The season also throws up stark images of pedestrians, motorists and just about everyone scurrying for cover and kids wet to the skin plying paper boats.
- Then the water was shallow enough to stand up in, and he waded in towards land, his dark wool hose streaming with water and the linen wrap about his wound wet through.
- The wool tunic and leggings on the man nearest me is wet through, his cap is flattened to his head.
- When they travelled miles to attend Mass on a Sunday morning, often in weather conditions that had them either wet to the skin or blue with the cold when they arrived at their place of worship.

wet one's whistle

informal Have a drink.
〈英，非正式〉酒
they meet ostensibly to discuss politics, but also to wet their whistles with brandy and soda
Example sentencesExamples
- Allowing film buffs to wet their whistle while they watch is one small step along the road to York's cherished goal: civilised drinking.
- Well, how about keeping me company while I wet my whistle?
- A heat wave has descended on Central Europe, so I decide to wet my whistle with a drink in the Westec Saloon, hoping, as I've been promised, that I'll hear some good live music.
- Only too happy to wet his whistle, he had two cases dispatched to his London offices yesterday.
- Office workers at Monks Cross who are hoping to wet their whistle after work are going to be waiting for a long time - as a bar or restaurant is not planned for the site for over 18 months.
- Emergency service workers struggle to make due under budgetary constraints set by a premier more interested in wetting his whistle than his forests.
- Because beer drinking is popular, to say the least, there are hundreds of bier halles and biergartens where you can wet your whistle.
Synonyms
drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap

Derivatives

wetly

adverbˈwɛtliˈwɛtli

Garbage spewed onto the street, bones and water bottles clattering across the street, rotten vegetables splattering wetly against the sidewalk.
Example sentencesExamples
- Each sound is rendered in precise detail - bullets crack as they pass your head and thud wetly as they enter your body.
- He cleared his throat wetly and continued reading.
- I was merely glowing wetly, and worrying about the icecream I'd just bought melting through the bottom of my shopping bag and dripping all over my trainers.
- Our burgers arrived and I picked up a fry, placed it between my teeth, and wetly sucked the traces of salt and seasoning from my fingers.

wettable

adjectiveˈwɛtəb(ə)lˈwɛdəb(ə)l

Dusting sulphur and wettable sulphur are great for controlling a number of disease problems.
Example sentencesExamples
- Measurements using miniature flush-mounted pressure transducers show that suckers can generate hydrostatic pressures below 0 kPa on wettable surfaces but cannot do so on non-wettable surfaces.
- These ingredients are readily wettable in an aqueous based food system, but do not dissolve, swell, or gel.
- The septal neck therefore, seals the chamber and precludes the contact between the rear mantle epithelium and those wettable surfaces that contact the cameral liquid.
- In addition, the characteristics of the wetted surface affect the cavitation threshold; cavitation thresholds of seawater are significantly more negative on wettable surfaces than on non-wettable surfaces.

wettish

adjective

The finish may have been of an exciting nature, but the inventive moments were extremely rare, at a bitterly cold, and for a spell, wettish Kilmaine on Saturday evening.
Example sentencesExamples
- A light drizzle, wettish coolness, fragrant air, twittering birds, no tourists, few locals, you don't even realise you've been walking for a couple of hours.
- On a wettish Wednesday the team of went for a pub lunch at Trafford's in the mall.
- The indications are that Thursday and Friday could be wettish.

Origin

Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water.

water from Old English:
The people living around the Black Sea more than 5 000 years ago had a word for water. We do not know exactly what it was, but it was probably the source for the words used for ‘water’ in many European languages, past and present. In Old English it was wæter. The Greek was hudōr, the source of words like hydraulic (mid 17th century) and hydrotherapy (late 19th century). The same root led to the formation of Latin unda ‘wave’, as in inundate (late 18th century), abound (Middle English) (from Latin abundare ‘overflow’), and undulate (mid 17th century), Russian voda (the source of vodka), German Wasser, and the English words wet (Old English) and otter (Old English). Of the first water means ‘unsurpassed’. The three highest grades into which diamonds or pearls could be classified used to be called waters, but only first water, the top one, is found today, describing a completely flawless gem. An equivalent term is found in many European languages, and all are thought to come from the Arabic word for water, mā, which also meant ‘shine or splendour’, presumably from the appearance of very pure water. People and things other than gems began to be described as of the first water in the 1820s. Nowadays the phrase is rarely used as a compliment: in a letter written in 1950, P.G. Wodehouse commented disparagingly on J. M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton: ‘I remember being entranced with it in 1904 or whenever it was, but now it seems like a turkey of the first water.’ If you study a duck shaking its wings after diving for food you will see the point of water off a duck's back, used since the 1820s of a potentially hurtful remark that has no apparent effect. The water forms into beads and simply slides off the bird's waterproof feathers, leaving the duck dry. Water under the bridge refers to events that are in the past and should no longer to be regarded as important. Similar phrases are recorded since the beginning of the 20th century. A North American variant is water over the dam. The first uses of waterlogged, in the late 18th century, referred to ships that were so flooded with water that they became heavy and unmanageable, and no better than a log floating in the sea. A watershed, a ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers or seas, has nothing to do with garden sheds but means ‘ridge of high ground’ and is connected with shed (Old English) meaning ‘discard’.

Rhymes

abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette

Definition of wet in US English:

wet

adjectivewɛtwet

1Covered or saturated with water or another liquid.
湿的，潮的，潮湿的
she followed, slipping on the wet rock
她跟在后面，踩在潮湿的岩石上摔倒了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Immediately remove clothing that has become saturated with wet concrete.
- The sidewalks are always wet and covered in magazines and flyers no one bothers to pick up.
- Sarah was cold and her clothes where wet and covered in mud.
- So managing the water from wet cutting is well worth it.
- Their bodies were bloody, contorted and covered with wet leaves.
- Tears slipped down his cheeks leaving wet splotches on the cover.
- His vision swam and blurred in front of him, the land seeming to be covered in wet lumps all around him.
- The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period.
- You can also cover them with wet towels or sheets and fan them until it is possible to get them to a hospital or doctor.
- Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating.
- To avoid tissue dehydration during measurements, the walls of the pressure chamber were covered with wet filter paper.
- Her outfit is utterly sopping wet and covered with sludge; after all, she had to cut across more than a few people's backyard to get here.
- The main type of central heating system is wet - where hot water is circulated through pipes and goes to radiators with valves that control the amount of time it spends there.
- By nightfall there were 20 climbers crowding the shelter and the walls were covered with wet clothes.
- My little brother Andrew stopped in mid-step and wiped his mouth still wet with water, as the adults looked at him in absolute surprise.
- His wheel rims were already wet from the water already in the road and, if anything, he continued to pick up speed.
- I have seen them wet with sea water, glistening in the sun.
- I told my son to get my garden gloves, and then we covered ourselves in wet towels and got her out but by then it was too late.
- I'm noticing that the floor is wet - entirely covered in dark liquid.
- Cover them with wet newspaper to keep them moist while dormant.
Synonyms
damp, dampened, moist, moistened
1. 1.1 (of the weather) rainy.
  （天气）下雨的；雨天的；多雨的
  a wet, windy evening
  一个下雨又刮风的夜晚。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Asian Garden thrives in winter, when the weather is wet and cool.
  The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole.
  Luck they had indoor entertainment as weather was extremely wet and windy.
  That weekend it was dreadful weather, it was wet, it was cold, it was windy, and that just made our emotions even more hard to bear.
  Sometimes they were sent them home early if the weather was too wet, but only once did they get sent home because it was too hot!
  Another spell of mild, wet and fairly windy weather is expected on Thursday.
  But normally if the weather was wet, my Lord, no you wouldn't have done it satisfactorily at all.
  But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
  What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure.
  But with brighter, wet and windy weather forecast for tomorrow, motorists in the county should not have to face the fog again.
  It will be mainly dry for a time on Wednesday, with sunny spells, but wet and windy weather will develop later.
  The weather is fairly wet but so far has not been very cold which is a good thing.
  A word of warning, if the weather is wet, the lane down to these pegs, normally easy, can become dangerous!
  It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful.
  wind is important in spreading diseases: for example bacterial blight is spread in wet, windy weather.
  The weather was wet, but visibility was still good.
  Despite wet and windy weather last week, the vehicle terminal at the port here reached a new record, handling 37 containers per working hour.
  Staking or supporting early in the growing season is best and can help direct plant growth, encourage better flower displays and prevent damage during wet and windy weather.
  But the agency says that if this prediction proves correct, it might only cause a problem if the cold weather is also wet - causing heavy snowfall in the hills.
  About 10,000 people braved wet and windy weather to attend the ceremony at the Margraten cemetery in the southern Netherlands.
  Synonyms
  rainy, raining, pouring, teeming, showery, drizzly, drizzling
2. 1.2 (of paint, ink, plaster, or a similar substance) not yet having dried or hardened.
  （油漆、墨水、灰泥或类似物质）未干的；未凝固的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Painting into wet plaster with water soluble pigments is one of the most difficult of all challenges a painter can face.
  The smell of fresh breads, wet ink, melting glass, new silks and a lot of currency drifted about from the many open stalls.
  This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink.
  Oil paint is a wet mixture of pigments in an oily medium.
  And I remember when it was here in Atlanta, you wanted to be careful about leaning against a post for fear the paint was still wet.
  While the paint and paper are still wet, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the painted section, making sure the wrap is wrinkled.
  The wall was splayed with fresh graffiti and the post was dripping with wet spray paint.
  Using the ink-soaked felt, tap it over the tag while the gold ink is still wet.
  The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off.
  The sign, on the front step of the home in London Road, Benfleet, had been placed there to warn people about wet paint on the newly decorated front door.
  He would cut a negative into wet sand and pour plaster into the sand mold.
  Masking tape takes ages to apply, it never comes off cleanly and it doesn't even mask off wet paint effectively.
  The method is similar to what is called dry fresco in Europe, as the paints are applied to a dry surface, not wet plaster as in true fresco.
  Instead of using the tried and tested method (egg tempera on wet plaster), however, he used a paint of his own invention.
  A classic fresco is an original image that was painted directly on a wall of wet plaster using natural pigments.
  It remains to be seen whether the glitter will stay stuck to the prints as I just sprinkled it onto the wet ink.
  You can also use the cleaner for wet paint on clothing, but launder clothes immediately after application.
  Like wet plaster of Paris hardening in a glass jar, salt crystals that have incorporated water can also expand to crack their container.
  The characteristic aspect of Christina's style is that of using the fluid motion of wet paint in a graceful pattern, before letting it finally dry.
  The one working on the side seemed to comb the wet plaster into horizontal furrows, while the one working on the back preferred a smooth finish.
  Synonyms
  sticky, not set, not hardened, not hard, tacky
  aqueous, watery, sloppy
3. 1.3 (of a baby or young child) having urinated in its diaper or underwear.
  （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的
  Example sentencesExamples
  I believe there is no baby there, but I'm willing to have a wet infant hauled into view.
  They have to stay in a wet nappy longer and wear clothes with food down the front.
  Unless I can conquer my competitive instincts, there'll be a lot of very wet toddlers and it'll all end in tears.
  Someone once said that the only person who welcomes change is a wet baby.
  Anny picks up the wet nappy and tiptoes out of the room.
4. 1.4 Involving the use of water or liquid.
  用水（或其他液体）的；用水（或其他液体）加工的
  wet methods of photography
  湿式摄影法。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Consider the following precautions when selecting a wet cleaning method.
  Another solution to this problem is to use wet methods or ‘dustless’ vacuum tools.
  Kistler was trying to prove that a gel contains a continuous solid network of the same size and shape as the wet gel.
  Typically, the choice of a wet method requires specific knowledge about the sample as well as the level of accuracy required.
  Tissue P status was analysed after wet digestion by the molybdate blue method.
  Known as the wet method, a building is sprayed with water as it is leveled.
2British informal Showing a lack of forcefulness or strength of character; feeble.
〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的
they thought the cadets were a bit wet
他们认为这些军校学员有点软弱无力。
Synonyms
feeble, silly, weak, foolish, inept, ineffective, ineffectual, effete, soft, namby-pamby, timid, timorous, spiritless, cowardly, spineless
3informal (of a country or region or of its legislation) allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages.
〈非正式〉（一个国家、地区或其立法）允许出售烈性酒的，不禁酒的
1. 3.1 (of a person) addicted to alcohol.
  （人）嗜好酒的

verbwɛtwet

[with object]

1Cover or touch with liquid; moisten.
把…弄湿；使潮湿
he wet a finger and flicked through the pages
他蘸湿一根手指翻书。
Example sentencesExamples
- Avoid wetting the foliage and thin out overcrowded growth.
- Seconds later, He wet his finger and stuck it in the ear of an unsuspecting TV reporter.
- The aspiration is the puff of air that you can feel if you wet your finger and hold it in front of your mouth when you say pot in English.
- Paddy, after a little thought and wet his finger and smudged the trunk of each of the trees.
- She went to the sink and wet a towel to clean Matty's face which was covered with spaghetti.
- Water dripped from the ceiling, creating puddles, wetting the carpet and ruining the already rotted woodwork.
- His form slowly turned and he looked at Jessica expectantly, she ran to him, through the mud, soaking her skirts and wetting her hair, then she held him.
- He screwed up his eyes and studied the clouds, wet a finger and held it up, picked a blade of grass and felt it between finger and thumb, smelt it.
- Concerned, I checked it and found that it only wet the cover over the pillow and did not seep to the pillow itself.
- Her short black hair had been carefully wetted down, and her usual leathers covered the intense fighter's form.
- If they seem bent and not curled, a good tip is wetting a Q-Tip and touching it to your lashes, before applying the mascara.
- Sand was deposited by wind or water, and briefly wetted by liquid water that evaporated, forming the sulfate cement.
- Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano.
- Of course, plenty of travelers also arrive via the tarmac, ready to reel in monster tuna, trek the hills, and take in the views without wetting a toe.
- He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi.
- She wetted the tip of her finger, counted out five tens and dropped them into the metal money scoop.
- Dip both ends into the liquid candle wax so the whole thing is wetted, then wait for it to harden (or chill it in your drink.)
- But tension is mounting as recreational fishers complain about not being able to find room on the water to wet their lines.
- After the application of the repellent, subjects were instructed not to rub, touch, or wet the treated arm.
- The waterskin slipped through Darteil's fingers, wetting his shirt.
Synonyms
dampen, damp, moisten, humidify
1. 1.1 (especially of a baby or young child) urinate in or on.
  （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的
  the child wet the bed
  那个小孩做梦时尿床了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Enuresis is classed as primary when the child has never been persistently dry through the night and as secondary when the child starts wetting the bed after one year of continence.
  ‘One young child wet the bed one night and was forced to walk round with a sandwich board over him the next day saying what he had done,’ she said.
  My six-year-old daughter has started wetting the bed.
  Would you blame a coma victim for wetting the bed?
  We find children who are wetting their beds and haven't done it before.
  But whenever one of our children wet the bed, he claimed that they were lazy, too lazy to get up, go to the bathroom.
  Alison said one of her children recently wet the bed, so they had to spend the night on the sofa and floor.
  The family should keep track of how many times the child voids during the day and how many nights the child wets the bed.
  She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly.
  Having large amounts of liquid before going to bed can make most children wet the bed.
  Estimates are that 20 per cent of all five-year-olds wet the bed.
  A few children still have trouble with wetting the bed at night.
  This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing.
  One in ten children is still wetting the bed by the age of five.
  If your child still wets the bed regularly, ask the doctor about ways to help decrease this behavior.
  His outbursts of anger were so frightening, one of his fellow teachers said, that two children had wet their pants.
  If both parents wet the bed when they were young, it's very likely that their child will as well.
  The concept of using an alarm that emits a sound when a child wets the bed was first introduced in 1938.
  At five years, more than one in six children still wet the bed.
  He still wets the bed during nights not regularly but frequently, mostly during winter when he goes to bed without going to the bathroom.
2. 1.2wet oneself Urinate involuntarily.
  （自己无法控制地）尿在身上
  Example sentencesExamples
  He had to wear a bag attached to his penis for fear of wetting himself because he could not say he wanted the toilet.
  Then we turned round and his missus had returned and was wetting herself laughing at us.
  This was unfortunate for everyone around us as we spent the rest of the week quoting lines from the film and almost wetting ourselves while all else wondered what was going on.
  Thankfully when the doctor tried to set my bones I conveniently wet myself and passed out with the pain.
  We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said.
  However if a child has been wet from birth, always wets himself / herself day and night, or never achieved toilet training, then it is essential to seek medical help.
  I know at least one person in the UK will be wetting themselves at the prospect of watching this show every night.
  For the last two years, I've been wetting myself when I laugh.
  For a movie that wets itself over the power of imagination, it doesn't show much creativity of its own.
  You can well imagine a young lad, his first time in battle, wetting himself with fear.
  Panic stations alerted, so I soused it avec water, and was sat there wetting myself while trying to dry it with the hairdryer.
  I even remember almost wetting myself once because I wouldn't use the school toilets after I'd heard the tale about the old care-taker who haunted the place.
  It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear.
  Is it directed by a veteran actor/star who Hollywood wets itself over?
  Sky almost wets herself with glee when he enters the classroom.
  Their ill - treatment of Victoria included beating her with a bicycle chain, tying her up and wrapping her in bin liners to prevent her wetting herself.
  The driver, in so much fear that he probably wet himself, sped away from the courthouse.
  He said his client became uncooperative at the police station after she was stopped from using the toilet and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in front of officers.
  I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted.
  Many of us are soon going to be afraid of a good belly laugh - for fear of wetting ourselves in public.

nounwɛtwet

1Liquid that makes something damp.
湿气；潮湿；水分；液体
I could feel the wet of his tears
我可以感觉到他的泪水。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes he looks really cute and appealing, and then others he looks like he's been ridden hard and put away wet.
- There's far too much wet around and I think it's softened my brain.
- We run together down windows, streaming and sobbing and smashed into one big wet.
Synonyms
wetness, damp, dampness, moisture, moistness
1. 1.1the wet Rainy weather.
  下雨天
  the race was held in the wet
  比赛在雨天进行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His head was down and his ears back, his coat somewhat darker with the wet.
  Synonyms
  rain, rains, drizzle, damp weather, rainy weather, showery weather, wet weather, precipitation, spray, dew, damp
2British informal A person lacking forcefulness or strength of character.
〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的
Synonyms
namby-pamby, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, baby
3US A person opposed to the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
〈美〉反禁酒者

Phrases

all wet

Completely wrong.
〈北美〉完全错误的
Example sentencesExamples
- You don't have to be a ‘Biblical scholar’ to know that what you wrote was all wet.
- Your discussion of the intellectual property debate is all wet.
- Their publishers are all wet about copyright.
- I suppose we could just thank our lucky stars that all the negative prognostications were all wet and leave it at that.
- Since I'm not an economist, I might be all wet about this.
- No sooner does the Consultant Debunking Unit dip its toe back into the waters of consulting-speak than it stumbles onto jargon that turns out to be all wet.
- But up next, Coke's plans to sell bottled water overseas are all wet.
- If the polls are all wet and the final vote breaks sharply one way or the other, people will want to claim the election as a historic watershed.
- Jeff actually knows what he's talking about, thinks I'm all wet on this one.
- By the way, most people think Roberts is all wet.

wet behind the ears

informal Lacking experience; immature.
〈非正式〉缺乏经验；不成熟的
Example sentencesExamples
- Tell me son have you ever cut turf before, following up with, it's just that you look a bit wet behind the ears for this job.
- I went out as a sort of wet behind the ears completely ignorant 21 year old and spent 18 months in Madagascar.
- The new breed of politicians should no longer be wet behind the ears and need to start acting like experienced rulers.
- The peak and valleys paint a visual picture of the sound the newborn universe made when it was still wet behind the ears, a mere 300,000 years after its birth in a big bang.
- It seems a funny thing to ask, but they are clearly a little wet behind the ears.
- Nowadays, 32 seems a bit wet behind the ears to me, but from memory it is about the age that you start to feel like the oldest swinger in town when you step inside a nightclub.
- At last I was a specialist in health psychology, but still a bit wet behind the ears professionally.
- That's not to say that the Green movement is admitting to being wet behind the ears.
- A bit wet behind the ears, and failed to recreate from a place in the starting line-up what he achieved coming off the bench against Tunisia.
- When I moved to from the East Coast to California in 1997, I was wet behind the ears, right out of college, and I knew I was kinky.

wet through (or to the skin)

With one's clothes soaked; completely drenched.
（衣服）完全湿透的
Example sentencesExamples
- She raised her head, and a rush of air cooled the patch of skin on Alex's shoulder that had been wet through his shirt by her tears.
- The season also throws up stark images of pedestrians, motorists and just about everyone scurrying for cover and kids wet to the skin plying paper boats.
- There were more than 5,000 fans squeezed into the ground and most of them got wet through.
- Then they won't be sitting in classrooms wet through and steaming.
- I think it was this weekend when I woke up to discover that my futon was actually damp, wet through from my sweating into it during the night.
- Then the water was shallow enough to stand up in, and he waded in towards land, his dark wool hose streaming with water and the linen wrap about his wound wet through.
- By the end of it we were wet to the skin and tired, but happy and all jumped out.
- The wool tunic and leggings on the man nearest me is wet through, his cap is flattened to his head.
- He was wet through so took off most of his clothes and emptied his pockets, to let everything dry off.
- When they travelled miles to attend Mass on a Sunday morning, often in weather conditions that had them either wet to the skin or blue with the cold when they arrived at their place of worship.

wet one's whistle

informal Have a drink.
〈英，非正式〉酒
Example sentencesExamples
- Emergency service workers struggle to make due under budgetary constraints set by a premier more interested in wetting his whistle than his forests.
- Because beer drinking is popular, to say the least, there are hundreds of bier halles and biergartens where you can wet your whistle.
- Only too happy to wet his whistle, he had two cases dispatched to his London offices yesterday.
- Office workers at Monks Cross who are hoping to wet their whistle after work are going to be waiting for a long time - as a bar or restaurant is not planned for the site for over 18 months.
- Allowing film buffs to wet their whistle while they watch is one small step along the road to York's cherished goal: civilised drinking.
- A heat wave has descended on Central Europe, so I decide to wet my whistle with a drink in the Westec Saloon, hoping, as I've been promised, that I'll hear some good live music.
- Well, how about keeping me company while I wet my whistle?
Synonyms
drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap

Origin

Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water.

词汇	wet
释义	Definition of wet in English: wet adjectivewetter, wettest wɛtwɛt 1Covered or saturated with water or another liquid. 湿的，潮的，潮湿的 she followed, slipping on the wet rock 她跟在后面，踩在潮湿的岩石上摔倒了。 Example sentencesExamples By nightfall there were 20 climbers crowding the shelter and the walls were covered with wet clothes. I'm noticing that the floor is wet - entirely covered in dark liquid. To avoid tissue dehydration during measurements, the walls of the pressure chamber were covered with wet filter paper. His wheel rims were already wet from the water already in the road and, if anything, he continued to pick up speed. Tears slipped down his cheeks leaving wet splotches on the cover. My little brother Andrew stopped in mid-step and wiped his mouth still wet with water, as the adults looked at him in absolute surprise. Sarah was cold and her clothes where wet and covered in mud. So managing the water from wet cutting is well worth it. Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating. You can also cover them with wet towels or sheets and fan them until it is possible to get them to a hospital or doctor. The main type of central heating system is wet - where hot water is circulated through pipes and goes to radiators with valves that control the amount of time it spends there. Immediately remove clothing that has become saturated with wet concrete. Their bodies were bloody, contorted and covered with wet leaves. The sidewalks are always wet and covered in magazines and flyers no one bothers to pick up. I told my son to get my garden gloves, and then we covered ourselves in wet towels and got her out but by then it was too late. Her outfit is utterly sopping wet and covered with sludge; after all, she had to cut across more than a few people's backyard to get here. Cover them with wet newspaper to keep them moist while dormant. I have seen them wet with sea water, glistening in the sun. His vision swam and blurred in front of him, the land seeming to be covered in wet lumps all around him. The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period. Synonyms damp, dampened, moist, moistened soaked, drenched, saturated, wet through, sopping/dripping/wringing wet, sopping, dripping, soggy waterlogged, squelchy, marshy, boggy, swampy, miry 1.1 (of the weather) rainy. （天气）下雨的；雨天的；多雨的 a wet, windy evening 一个下雨又刮风的夜晚。 Example sentencesExamples But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet. Another spell of mild, wet and fairly windy weather is expected on Thursday. Despite wet and windy weather last week, the vehicle terminal at the port here reached a new record, handling 37 containers per working hour. But the agency says that if this prediction proves correct, it might only cause a problem if the cold weather is also wet - causing heavy snowfall in the hills. wind is important in spreading diseases: for example bacterial blight is spread in wet, windy weather. Luck they had indoor entertainment as weather was extremely wet and windy. But with brighter, wet and windy weather forecast for tomorrow, motorists in the county should not have to face the fog again. The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole. The Asian Garden thrives in winter, when the weather is wet and cool. Sometimes they were sent them home early if the weather was too wet, but only once did they get sent home because it was too hot! Staking or supporting early in the growing season is best and can help direct plant growth, encourage better flower displays and prevent damage during wet and windy weather. That weekend it was dreadful weather, it was wet, it was cold, it was windy, and that just made our emotions even more hard to bear. It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful. What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure. It will be mainly dry for a time on Wednesday, with sunny spells, but wet and windy weather will develop later. The weather is fairly wet but so far has not been very cold which is a good thing. The weather was wet, but visibility was still good. But normally if the weather was wet, my Lord, no you wouldn't have done it satisfactorily at all. A word of warning, if the weather is wet, the lane down to these pegs, normally easy, can become dangerous! About 10,000 people braved wet and windy weather to attend the ceremony at the Margraten cemetery in the southern Netherlands. Synonyms rainy, raining, pouring, teeming, showery, drizzly, drizzling damp, humid, dank, misty 1.2 (of paint, ink, plaster, or a similar substance) not yet having dried or hardened. （油漆、墨水、灰泥或类似物质）未干的；未凝固的 the waterproofer can easily be washed off while it is still wet Example sentencesExamples The smell of fresh breads, wet ink, melting glass, new silks and a lot of currency drifted about from the many open stalls. The sign, on the front step of the home in London Road, Benfleet, had been placed there to warn people about wet paint on the newly decorated front door. Like wet plaster of Paris hardening in a glass jar, salt crystals that have incorporated water can also expand to crack their container. The one working on the side seemed to comb the wet plaster into horizontal furrows, while the one working on the back preferred a smooth finish. Using the ink-soaked felt, tap it over the tag while the gold ink is still wet. The wall was splayed with fresh graffiti and the post was dripping with wet spray paint. He would cut a negative into wet sand and pour plaster into the sand mold. The characteristic aspect of Christina's style is that of using the fluid motion of wet paint in a graceful pattern, before letting it finally dry. It remains to be seen whether the glitter will stay stuck to the prints as I just sprinkled it onto the wet ink. Masking tape takes ages to apply, it never comes off cleanly and it doesn't even mask off wet paint effectively. The method is similar to what is called dry fresco in Europe, as the paints are applied to a dry surface, not wet plaster as in true fresco. Oil paint is a wet mixture of pigments in an oily medium. And I remember when it was here in Atlanta, you wanted to be careful about leaning against a post for fear the paint was still wet. While the paint and paper are still wet, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the painted section, making sure the wrap is wrinkled. The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off. A classic fresco is an original image that was painted directly on a wall of wet plaster using natural pigments. This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink. You can also use the cleaner for wet paint on clothing, but launder clothes immediately after application. Painting into wet plaster with water soluble pigments is one of the most difficult of all challenges a painter can face. Instead of using the tried and tested method (egg tempera on wet plaster), however, he used a paint of his own invention. Synonyms sticky, not set, not hardened, not hard, tacky fresh aqueous, watery, sloppy 1.3 (of a baby or young child) having urinated in its nappy or underwear. （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的 the baby was wet and needed changing Example sentencesExamples Unless I can conquer my competitive instincts, there'll be a lot of very wet toddlers and it'll all end in tears. Someone once said that the only person who welcomes change is a wet baby. I believe there is no baby there, but I'm willing to have a wet infant hauled into view. Anny picks up the wet nappy and tiptoes out of the room. They have to stay in a wet nappy longer and wear clothes with food down the front. 1.4 Involving the use of water or liquid. 用水（或其他液体）的；用水（或其他液体）加工的 wet methods of photography 湿式摄影法。 Example sentencesExamples Kistler was trying to prove that a gel contains a continuous solid network of the same size and shape as the wet gel. Known as the wet method, a building is sprayed with water as it is leveled. Consider the following precautions when selecting a wet cleaning method. Typically, the choice of a wet method requires specific knowledge about the sample as well as the level of accuracy required. Tissue P status was analysed after wet digestion by the molybdate blue method. Another solution to this problem is to use wet methods or ‘dustless’ vacuum tools. 1.5Nautical (of a ship) liable to take in water over her bows or sides. 〔航海〕（轮船）易（从船首或舷侧）进水的 2British informal Showing a lack of forcefulness or strength of character; feeble. 〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的 they thought the cadets were a bit wet 他们认为这些军校学员有点软弱无力。 Synonyms feeble, silly, weak, foolish, inept, ineffective, ineffectual, effete, soft, namby-pamby, timid, timorous, spiritless, cowardly, spineless informal sissy, sissified, pathetic, drippy, wimpish, wimpy, weedy, daft, chicken, yellow-bellied 2.1 Conservative with liberal tendencies, especially as regarded by right-wing Conservatives. （尤指被右翼保守派认为）具有自由主义倾向的保守派的 they came across as the most liberal or wet members of the government Example sentencesExamples Call me a wet Guardianista liberal, but a bit of peace, love and understanding wouldn't go astray. I think there's a good chunk of wet liberal New Labour angst behind it all. As a died-in-the-wool wet liberal, I'm coming from an altogether different place than Mr. Philips. I'm of the mind this is a good thing, but I am a wet wooly liberal. I know some wet urban liberals who are thinking of voting for the Maori Party. The wet Liberals are a pathetic and spineless bunch who are wholly subservient to government discipline and their own ambition in equal measure. To the wet bleeding heart liberals, I say get a life and do something useful for a change. 3informal (of a country or region or of its legislation) allowing the free sale of alcoholic drink. 〈非正式〉（一个国家、地区或其立法）允许出售烈性酒的，不禁酒的 3.1 (of a person) addicted to or drinking alcohol. （人）嗜好酒的 our programme depends on our willingness to help other alcoholics, both wet and dry verbwetted, wets, wetting wɛtwɛt [with object] 1Cover or touch with liquid; moisten. 把…弄湿；使潮湿 he wetted a finger and flicked through the pages 他蘸湿一根手指翻书。 Example sentencesExamples Dip both ends into the liquid candle wax so the whole thing is wetted, then wait for it to harden (or chill it in your drink.) Of course, plenty of travelers also arrive via the tarmac, ready to reel in monster tuna, trek the hills, and take in the views without wetting a toe. Her short black hair had been carefully wetted down, and her usual leathers covered the intense fighter's form. The waterskin slipped through Darteil's fingers, wetting his shirt. She went to the sink and wet a towel to clean Matty's face which was covered with spaghetti. Water dripped from the ceiling, creating puddles, wetting the carpet and ruining the already rotted woodwork. Avoid wetting the foliage and thin out overcrowded growth. He screwed up his eyes and studied the clouds, wet a finger and held it up, picked a blade of grass and felt it between finger and thumb, smelt it. If they seem bent and not curled, a good tip is wetting a Q-Tip and touching it to your lashes, before applying the mascara. He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi. Seconds later, He wet his finger and stuck it in the ear of an unsuspecting TV reporter. After the application of the repellent, subjects were instructed not to rub, touch, or wet the treated arm. The aspiration is the puff of air that you can feel if you wet your finger and hold it in front of your mouth when you say pot in English. Concerned, I checked it and found that it only wet the cover over the pillow and did not seep to the pillow itself. Sand was deposited by wind or water, and briefly wetted by liquid water that evaporated, forming the sulfate cement. Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano. But tension is mounting as recreational fishers complain about not being able to find room on the water to wet their lines. Paddy, after a little thought and wet his finger and smudged the trunk of each of the trees. She wetted the tip of her finger, counted out five tens and dropped them into the metal money scoop. His form slowly turned and he looked at Jessica expectantly, she ran to him, through the mud, soaking her skirts and wetting her hair, then she held him. Synonyms dampen, damp, moisten, humidify sprinkle, spray, splash soak, saturate, waterlog, flood, deluge, douse, souse, drench hose down, water, irrigate technical ret Scottish &amp Northern English drouk archaic sop 1.1 (especially of a baby or young child) urinate in or on. （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的 while dreaming the child wet the bed 那个小孩做梦时尿床了。 Example sentencesExamples We find children who are wetting their beds and haven't done it before. Enuresis is classed as primary when the child has never been persistently dry through the night and as secondary when the child starts wetting the bed after one year of continence. At five years, more than one in six children still wet the bed. A few children still have trouble with wetting the bed at night. Having large amounts of liquid before going to bed can make most children wet the bed. The family should keep track of how many times the child voids during the day and how many nights the child wets the bed. His outbursts of anger were so frightening, one of his fellow teachers said, that two children had wet their pants. The concept of using an alarm that emits a sound when a child wets the bed was first introduced in 1938. If your child still wets the bed regularly, ask the doctor about ways to help decrease this behavior. But whenever one of our children wet the bed, he claimed that they were lazy, too lazy to get up, go to the bathroom. He still wets the bed during nights not regularly but frequently, mostly during winter when he goes to bed without going to the bathroom. ‘One young child wet the bed one night and was forced to walk round with a sandwich board over him the next day saying what he had done,’ she said. This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing. Alison said one of her children recently wet the bed, so they had to spend the night on the sofa and floor. If both parents wet the bed when they were young, it's very likely that their child will as well. My six-year-old daughter has started wetting the bed. Would you blame a coma victim for wetting the bed? Estimates are that 20 per cent of all five-year-olds wet the bed. One in ten children is still wetting the bed by the age of five. She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly. 1.2wet oneself Urinate involuntarily. （自己无法控制地）尿在身上 she was going to wet herself from fear Example sentencesExamples Then we turned round and his missus had returned and was wetting herself laughing at us. The driver, in so much fear that he probably wet himself, sped away from the courthouse. He said his client became uncooperative at the police station after she was stopped from using the toilet and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in front of officers. Panic stations alerted, so I soused it avec water, and was sat there wetting myself while trying to dry it with the hairdryer. Is it directed by a veteran actor/star who Hollywood wets itself over? He had to wear a bag attached to his penis for fear of wetting himself because he could not say he wanted the toilet. We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said. It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear. This was unfortunate for everyone around us as we spent the rest of the week quoting lines from the film and almost wetting ourselves while all else wondered what was going on. I know at least one person in the UK will be wetting themselves at the prospect of watching this show every night. Sky almost wets herself with glee when he enters the classroom. I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted. Their ill - treatment of Victoria included beating her with a bicycle chain, tying her up and wrapping her in bin liners to prevent her wetting herself. I even remember almost wetting myself once because I wouldn't use the school toilets after I'd heard the tale about the old care-taker who haunted the place. For a movie that wets itself over the power of imagination, it doesn't show much creativity of its own. However if a child has been wet from birth, always wets himself / herself day and night, or never achieved toilet training, then it is essential to seek medical help. Thankfully when the doctor tried to set my bones I conveniently wet myself and passed out with the pain. Many of us are soon going to be afraid of a good belly laugh - for fear of wetting ourselves in public. For the last two years, I've been wetting myself when I laugh. You can well imagine a young lad, his first time in battle, wetting himself with fear. 1.3dialect Infuse (tea) by pouring on boiling water. 〈方〉（倒入滚烫的开水）沏（茶） she said she'd wet the tea immediately because they must be parched nounPlural wets wɛtwɛt 1mass noun Liquid that makes something damp. 湿气；潮湿；水分；液体 I could feel the wet of his tears 我可以感觉到他的泪水。 Example sentencesExamples There's far too much wet around and I think it's softened my brain. Sometimes he looks really cute and appealing, and then others he looks like he's been ridden hard and put away wet. We run together down windows, streaming and sobbing and smashed into one big wet. Synonyms wetness, damp, dampness, moisture, moistness clamminess, sogginess wateriness, water, liquid 1.1the wet Rainy weather. 下雨天 the race was held in the wet 比赛在雨天进行。 Example sentencesExamples His head was down and his ears back, his coat somewhat darker with the wet. Synonyms rain, rains, drizzle, wet/rainy/showery/damp weather, precipitation, spray, dew, damp 1.2British informal count noun A drink. 〈英，非正式〉酒 I took a wet from my bottle 我从瓶中喝了一口酒。 2British informal A person lacking forcefulness or strength of character. 〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的 there are sorts who look like gangsters and sorts who look like wets Synonyms namby-pamby, weakling, milksop, Milquetoast, baby coward, mouse informal wimp, weed, drip, mummy's boy, mollycoddle, sissy, softie, jellyfish, chicken, yellow-belly, fraidy-cat, scaredy-cat British informal big girl's blouse, jessie North American informal candy-ass, cupcake, pantywaist, pussy Australian/New Zealand informal sook archaic poltroon 2.1 A Conservative with liberal tendencies. 具有自由主义倾向的保守派 the wets favoured a change in economic policy Example sentencesExamples With her eyes bulged in terror, her face wet with perspiration, and her mouth gaping in a wide O, she didn't look very sultry at all. On screen, their national spokesmen and women smile charmingly and portray themselves as decent people who may be a bit wet but are unlike the other politicians. On the new US imperialism, he is an impeccable neoconservative; on the death penalty he is a liberal; on the Euro he is with the Tory wets and (some of) New Labour. Tory wets will enthuse about social justice and inclusivity like simpering liberals. I must say, the Labor Party isn't Robinson Crusoe - the Liberals have got their factions, the wets and the dries, even the Nats - god help us - have got factions as well. It was largely as a result of the confused policy direction of the wets that did so much to hasten the Conservative decline in the 1990s. I'm a conservative wet if you would like to apply a label. Margaret Thatcher used the re-shuffle as an act of terror, exterminating wets and savaging useful fall guys. Andretti in the wet on Sunday scored wins in the Skip Barber National double-header at Road They should stop telling themselves that it's good enough to be the wets or progressives in political parties which are now openly dedicated to illiberal ends. The outspoken wet in a dry, dry Liberal Party was fronting the official celebrations for this week's centenary of female suffrage. But he says the divide is no longer between liberals and conservatives, or economic wets and dries. For many people it was the death of Liberalism as prominent wets left soon after. 3US A person opposed to the prohibition of alcohol. 〈美〉反禁酒者 Phrases all wet Completely wrong. 〈北美〉完全错误的 I may be all wet on this point Example sentencesExamples You don't have to be a ‘Biblical scholar’ to know that what you wrote was all wet. Their publishers are all wet about copyright. By the way, most people think Roberts is all wet. If the polls are all wet and the final vote breaks sharply one way or the other, people will want to claim the election as a historic watershed. Jeff actually knows what he's talking about, thinks I'm all wet on this one. I suppose we could just thank our lucky stars that all the negative prognostications were all wet and leave it at that. Your discussion of the intellectual property debate is all wet. No sooner does the Consultant Debunking Unit dip its toe back into the waters of consulting-speak than it stumbles onto jargon that turns out to be all wet. But up next, Coke's plans to sell bottled water overseas are all wet. Since I'm not an economist, I might be all wet about this. wet the baby's head informal Celebrate a baby's birth with a drink, typically an alcoholic one. 〈英，非正式〉以喝酒来庆祝婴儿的出生 Example sentencesExamples No, not that, I did that with Muriel, John and Gus last night - you know, went for a drink to celebrate wetting the baby's head. We definitely wet the baby's head afterwards, then the team came back to our house. It was a busy evening wetting the baby's head, which the father's head knew about the next morning, but he wishes to thank everyone for their kind words, and their help in welcoming the new arrival. Your hospital bag is as much a tradition of the childbirth experience as is ‘wetting the baby's head’. As for whether I'll be having a traditional boy's night out to wet the baby's head well, I'm always having a boy's night out! Perhaps, some time later (as they do in Champagne to bring good fortune) one may be used to wet the baby's head. At least I managed to wet the baby's head, even if it was with cola. Many of you may want to help her wet the baby's head at the plush casual eatery next to Bar 38, off Coney Street, which is opening this weekend. wet behind the ears informal Lacking experience; immature. 〈非正式〉缺乏经验；不成熟的 he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears Example sentencesExamples The peak and valleys paint a visual picture of the sound the newborn universe made when it was still wet behind the ears, a mere 300,000 years after its birth in a big bang. When I moved to from the East Coast to California in 1997, I was wet behind the ears, right out of college, and I knew I was kinky. Nowadays, 32 seems a bit wet behind the ears to me, but from memory it is about the age that you start to feel like the oldest swinger in town when you step inside a nightclub. Tell me son have you ever cut turf before, following up with, it's just that you look a bit wet behind the ears for this job. A bit wet behind the ears, and failed to recreate from a place in the starting line-up what he achieved coming off the bench against Tunisia. It seems a funny thing to ask, but they are clearly a little wet behind the ears. The new breed of politicians should no longer be wet behind the ears and need to start acting like experienced rulers. That's not to say that the Green movement is admitting to being wet behind the ears. At last I was a specialist in health psychology, but still a bit wet behind the ears professionally. I went out as a sort of wet behind the ears completely ignorant 21 year old and spent 18 months in Madagascar. wet through (or to the skin) With one's clothes soaked; completely drenched. （衣服）完全湿透的 she was wet through and felt cold Example sentencesExamples She raised her head, and a rush of air cooled the patch of skin on Alex's shoulder that had been wet through his shirt by her tears. He was wet through so took off most of his clothes and emptied his pockets, to let everything dry off. By the end of it we were wet to the skin and tired, but happy and all jumped out. I think it was this weekend when I woke up to discover that my futon was actually damp, wet through from my sweating into it during the night. Then they won't be sitting in classrooms wet through and steaming. There were more than 5,000 fans squeezed into the ground and most of them got wet through. The season also throws up stark images of pedestrians, motorists and just about everyone scurrying for cover and kids wet to the skin plying paper boats. Then the water was shallow enough to stand up in, and he waded in towards land, his dark wool hose streaming with water and the linen wrap about his wound wet through. The wool tunic and leggings on the man nearest me is wet through, his cap is flattened to his head. When they travelled miles to attend Mass on a Sunday morning, often in weather conditions that had them either wet to the skin or blue with the cold when they arrived at their place of worship. wet one's whistle informal Have a drink. 〈英，非正式〉酒 they meet ostensibly to discuss politics, but also to wet their whistles with brandy and soda Example sentencesExamples Allowing film buffs to wet their whistle while they watch is one small step along the road to York's cherished goal: civilised drinking. Well, how about keeping me company while I wet my whistle? A heat wave has descended on Central Europe, so I decide to wet my whistle with a drink in the Westec Saloon, hoping, as I've been promised, that I'll hear some good live music. Only too happy to wet his whistle, he had two cases dispatched to his London offices yesterday. Office workers at Monks Cross who are hoping to wet their whistle after work are going to be waiting for a long time - as a bar or restaurant is not planned for the site for over 18 months. Emergency service workers struggle to make due under budgetary constraints set by a premier more interested in wetting his whistle than his forests. Because beer drinking is popular, to say the least, there are hundreds of bier halles and biergartens where you can wet your whistle. Synonyms drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap Derivatives wetly adverbˈwɛtliˈwɛtli Garbage spewed onto the street, bones and water bottles clattering across the street, rotten vegetables splattering wetly against the sidewalk. Example sentencesExamples Each sound is rendered in precise detail - bullets crack as they pass your head and thud wetly as they enter your body. He cleared his throat wetly and continued reading. I was merely glowing wetly, and worrying about the icecream I'd just bought melting through the bottom of my shopping bag and dripping all over my trainers. Our burgers arrived and I picked up a fry, placed it between my teeth, and wetly sucked the traces of salt and seasoning from my fingers. wettable adjectiveˈwɛtəb(ə)lˈwɛdəb(ə)l Dusting sulphur and wettable sulphur are great for controlling a number of disease problems. Example sentencesExamples Measurements using miniature flush-mounted pressure transducers show that suckers can generate hydrostatic pressures below 0 kPa on wettable surfaces but cannot do so on non-wettable surfaces. These ingredients are readily wettable in an aqueous based food system, but do not dissolve, swell, or gel. The septal neck therefore, seals the chamber and precludes the contact between the rear mantle epithelium and those wettable surfaces that contact the cameral liquid. In addition, the characteristics of the wetted surface affect the cavitation threshold; cavitation thresholds of seawater are significantly more negative on wettable surfaces than on non-wettable surfaces. wettish adjective The finish may have been of an exciting nature, but the inventive moments were extremely rare, at a bitterly cold, and for a spell, wettish Kilmaine on Saturday evening. Example sentencesExamples A light drizzle, wettish coolness, fragrant air, twittering birds, no tourists, few locals, you don't even realise you've been walking for a couple of hours. On a wettish Wednesday the team of went for a pub lunch at Trafford's in the mall. The indications are that Thursday and Friday could be wettish. Origin Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water. water from Old English: The people living around the Black Sea more than 5 000 years ago had a word for water. We do not know exactly what it was, but it was probably the source for the words used for ‘water’ in many European languages, past and present. In Old English it was wæter. The Greek was hudōr, the source of words like hydraulic (mid 17th century) and hydrotherapy (late 19th century). The same root led to the formation of Latin unda ‘wave’, as in inundate (late 18th century), abound (Middle English) (from Latin abundare ‘overflow’), and undulate (mid 17th century), Russian voda (the source of vodka), German Wasser, and the English words wet (Old English) and otter (Old English). Of the first water means ‘unsurpassed’. The three highest grades into which diamonds or pearls could be classified used to be called waters, but only first water, the top one, is found today, describing a completely flawless gem. An equivalent term is found in many European languages, and all are thought to come from the Arabic word for water, mā, which also meant ‘shine or splendour’, presumably from the appearance of very pure water. People and things other than gems began to be described as of the first water in the 1820s. Nowadays the phrase is rarely used as a compliment: in a letter written in 1950, P.G. Wodehouse commented disparagingly on J. M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton: ‘I remember being entranced with it in 1904 or whenever it was, but now it seems like a turkey of the first water.’ If you study a duck shaking its wings after diving for food you will see the point of water off a duck's back, used since the 1820s of a potentially hurtful remark that has no apparent effect. The water forms into beads and simply slides off the bird's waterproof feathers, leaving the duck dry. Water under the bridge refers to events that are in the past and should no longer to be regarded as important. Similar phrases are recorded since the beginning of the 20th century. A North American variant is water over the dam. The first uses of waterlogged, in the late 18th century, referred to ships that were so flooded with water that they became heavy and unmanageable, and no better than a log floating in the sea. A watershed, a ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers or seas, has nothing to do with garden sheds but means ‘ridge of high ground’ and is connected with shed (Old English) meaning ‘discard’. Rhymes abet, aiguillette, anisette, Annette, Antoinette, arête, Arlette, ate, baguette, banquette, barbette, barrette, basinet, bassinet, beget, Bernadette, beset, bet, Bette, blanquette, Brett, briquette, brochette, brunette (US brunet), Burnett, cadet, caravanette, cassette, castanet, charette, cigarette (US cigaret), clarinet, Claudette, Colette, coquette, corvette, couchette, courgette, croquette, curette, curvet, Debrett, debt, dinette, diskette, duet, epaulette (US epaulet), flageolet, flannelette, forget, fret, galette, gazette, Georgette, get, godet, grisette, heavyset, Jeanette, jet, kitchenette, La Fayette, landaulet, launderette, layette, lazaret, leatherette, let, Lett, lorgnette, luncheonette, lunette, Lynette, maisonette, majorette, maquette, Marie-Antoinette, marionette, Marquette, marquisette, martinet, met, minaret, minuet, moquette, motet, musette, Nanette, net, noisette, nonet, novelette, nymphet, octet, Odette, on-set, oubliette, Paulette, pet, Phuket, picquet, pillaret, pincette, pipette, piquet, pirouette, planchette, pochette, quartet, quickset, quintet, regret, ret, Rhett, roomette, rosette, roulette, satinette, septet, serviette, sestet, set, sett, sextet, silhouette, soubrette, spinet, spinneret, statuette, stet, stockinet, sublet, suffragette, Suzette, sweat, thickset, threat, Tibet, toilette, tret, underlet, upset, usherette, vedette, vet, vignette, vinaigrette, wagonette, whet, winceyette, yet, Yvette adj.1 phr. Definition of wet in US English: wet adjectivewɛtwet 1Covered or saturated with water or another liquid. 湿的，潮的，潮湿的 she followed, slipping on the wet rock 她跟在后面，踩在潮湿的岩石上摔倒了。 Example sentencesExamples Immediately remove clothing that has become saturated with wet concrete. The sidewalks are always wet and covered in magazines and flyers no one bothers to pick up. Sarah was cold and her clothes where wet and covered in mud. So managing the water from wet cutting is well worth it. Their bodies were bloody, contorted and covered with wet leaves. Tears slipped down his cheeks leaving wet splotches on the cover. His vision swam and blurred in front of him, the land seeming to be covered in wet lumps all around him. The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period. You can also cover them with wet towels or sheets and fan them until it is possible to get them to a hospital or doctor. Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating. To avoid tissue dehydration during measurements, the walls of the pressure chamber were covered with wet filter paper. Her outfit is utterly sopping wet and covered with sludge; after all, she had to cut across more than a few people's backyard to get here. The main type of central heating system is wet - where hot water is circulated through pipes and goes to radiators with valves that control the amount of time it spends there. By nightfall there were 20 climbers crowding the shelter and the walls were covered with wet clothes. My little brother Andrew stopped in mid-step and wiped his mouth still wet with water, as the adults looked at him in absolute surprise. His wheel rims were already wet from the water already in the road and, if anything, he continued to pick up speed. I have seen them wet with sea water, glistening in the sun. I told my son to get my garden gloves, and then we covered ourselves in wet towels and got her out but by then it was too late. I'm noticing that the floor is wet - entirely covered in dark liquid. Cover them with wet newspaper to keep them moist while dormant. Synonyms damp, dampened, moist, moistened 1.1 (of the weather) rainy. （天气）下雨的；雨天的；多雨的 a wet, windy evening 一个下雨又刮风的夜晚。 Example sentencesExamples The Asian Garden thrives in winter, when the weather is wet and cool. The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole. Luck they had indoor entertainment as weather was extremely wet and windy. That weekend it was dreadful weather, it was wet, it was cold, it was windy, and that just made our emotions even more hard to bear. Sometimes they were sent them home early if the weather was too wet, but only once did they get sent home because it was too hot! Another spell of mild, wet and fairly windy weather is expected on Thursday. But normally if the weather was wet, my Lord, no you wouldn't have done it satisfactorily at all. But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet. What made it more remarkable was the weather, which was wet, cold and very windy, with the odd snow shower thrown in for good measure. But with brighter, wet and windy weather forecast for tomorrow, motorists in the county should not have to face the fog again. It will be mainly dry for a time on Wednesday, with sunny spells, but wet and windy weather will develop later. The weather is fairly wet but so far has not been very cold which is a good thing. A word of warning, if the weather is wet, the lane down to these pegs, normally easy, can become dangerous! It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful. wind is important in spreading diseases: for example bacterial blight is spread in wet, windy weather. The weather was wet, but visibility was still good. Despite wet and windy weather last week, the vehicle terminal at the port here reached a new record, handling 37 containers per working hour. Staking or supporting early in the growing season is best and can help direct plant growth, encourage better flower displays and prevent damage during wet and windy weather. But the agency says that if this prediction proves correct, it might only cause a problem if the cold weather is also wet - causing heavy snowfall in the hills. About 10,000 people braved wet and windy weather to attend the ceremony at the Margraten cemetery in the southern Netherlands. Synonyms rainy, raining, pouring, teeming, showery, drizzly, drizzling 1.2 (of paint, ink, plaster, or a similar substance) not yet having dried or hardened. （油漆、墨水、灰泥或类似物质）未干的；未凝固的 Example sentencesExamples Painting into wet plaster with water soluble pigments is one of the most difficult of all challenges a painter can face. The smell of fresh breads, wet ink, melting glass, new silks and a lot of currency drifted about from the many open stalls. This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink. Oil paint is a wet mixture of pigments in an oily medium. And I remember when it was here in Atlanta, you wanted to be careful about leaning against a post for fear the paint was still wet. While the paint and paper are still wet, place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the painted section, making sure the wrap is wrinkled. The wall was splayed with fresh graffiti and the post was dripping with wet spray paint. Using the ink-soaked felt, tap it over the tag while the gold ink is still wet. The cupola and the concrete construction were corroded, the masonry was wet, and plaster work was peeling off. The sign, on the front step of the home in London Road, Benfleet, had been placed there to warn people about wet paint on the newly decorated front door. He would cut a negative into wet sand and pour plaster into the sand mold. Masking tape takes ages to apply, it never comes off cleanly and it doesn't even mask off wet paint effectively. The method is similar to what is called dry fresco in Europe, as the paints are applied to a dry surface, not wet plaster as in true fresco. Instead of using the tried and tested method (egg tempera on wet plaster), however, he used a paint of his own invention. A classic fresco is an original image that was painted directly on a wall of wet plaster using natural pigments. It remains to be seen whether the glitter will stay stuck to the prints as I just sprinkled it onto the wet ink. You can also use the cleaner for wet paint on clothing, but launder clothes immediately after application. Like wet plaster of Paris hardening in a glass jar, salt crystals that have incorporated water can also expand to crack their container. The characteristic aspect of Christina's style is that of using the fluid motion of wet paint in a graceful pattern, before letting it finally dry. The one working on the side seemed to comb the wet plaster into horizontal furrows, while the one working on the back preferred a smooth finish. Synonyms sticky, not set, not hardened, not hard, tacky aqueous, watery, sloppy 1.3 (of a baby or young child) having urinated in its diaper or underwear. （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的 Example sentencesExamples I believe there is no baby there, but I'm willing to have a wet infant hauled into view. They have to stay in a wet nappy longer and wear clothes with food down the front. Unless I can conquer my competitive instincts, there'll be a lot of very wet toddlers and it'll all end in tears. Someone once said that the only person who welcomes change is a wet baby. Anny picks up the wet nappy and tiptoes out of the room. 1.4 Involving the use of water or liquid. 用水（或其他液体）的；用水（或其他液体）加工的 wet methods of photography 湿式摄影法。 Example sentencesExamples Consider the following precautions when selecting a wet cleaning method. Another solution to this problem is to use wet methods or ‘dustless’ vacuum tools. Kistler was trying to prove that a gel contains a continuous solid network of the same size and shape as the wet gel. Typically, the choice of a wet method requires specific knowledge about the sample as well as the level of accuracy required. Tissue P status was analysed after wet digestion by the molybdate blue method. Known as the wet method, a building is sprayed with water as it is leveled. 2British informal Showing a lack of forcefulness or strength of character; feeble. 〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的 they thought the cadets were a bit wet 他们认为这些军校学员有点软弱无力。 Synonyms feeble, silly, weak, foolish, inept, ineffective, ineffectual, effete, soft, namby-pamby, timid, timorous, spiritless, cowardly, spineless 3informal (of a country or region or of its legislation) allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages. 〈非正式〉（一个国家、地区或其立法）允许出售烈性酒的，不禁酒的 3.1 (of a person) addicted to alcohol. （人）嗜好酒的 verbwɛtwet [with object] 1Cover or touch with liquid; moisten. 把…弄湿；使潮湿 he wet a finger and flicked through the pages 他蘸湿一根手指翻书。 Example sentencesExamples Avoid wetting the foliage and thin out overcrowded growth. Seconds later, He wet his finger and stuck it in the ear of an unsuspecting TV reporter. The aspiration is the puff of air that you can feel if you wet your finger and hold it in front of your mouth when you say pot in English. Paddy, after a little thought and wet his finger and smudged the trunk of each of the trees. She went to the sink and wet a towel to clean Matty's face which was covered with spaghetti. Water dripped from the ceiling, creating puddles, wetting the carpet and ruining the already rotted woodwork. His form slowly turned and he looked at Jessica expectantly, she ran to him, through the mud, soaking her skirts and wetting her hair, then she held him. He screwed up his eyes and studied the clouds, wet a finger and held it up, picked a blade of grass and felt it between finger and thumb, smelt it. Concerned, I checked it and found that it only wet the cover over the pillow and did not seep to the pillow itself. Her short black hair had been carefully wetted down, and her usual leathers covered the intense fighter's form. If they seem bent and not curled, a good tip is wetting a Q-Tip and touching it to your lashes, before applying the mascara. Sand was deposited by wind or water, and briefly wetted by liquid water that evaporated, forming the sulfate cement. Franklin would pump the treadle, wet his fingers, and stroke the rims of the bowls, almost as if playing notes on the piano. Of course, plenty of travelers also arrive via the tarmac, ready to reel in monster tuna, trek the hills, and take in the views without wetting a toe. He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi. She wetted the tip of her finger, counted out five tens and dropped them into the metal money scoop. Dip both ends into the liquid candle wax so the whole thing is wetted, then wait for it to harden (or chill it in your drink.) But tension is mounting as recreational fishers complain about not being able to find room on the water to wet their lines. After the application of the repellent, subjects were instructed not to rub, touch, or wet the treated arm. The waterskin slipped through Darteil's fingers, wetting his shirt. Synonyms dampen, damp, moisten, humidify 1.1 (especially of a baby or young child) urinate in or on. （婴儿，小孩）尿湿的 the child wet the bed 那个小孩做梦时尿床了。 Example sentencesExamples Enuresis is classed as primary when the child has never been persistently dry through the night and as secondary when the child starts wetting the bed after one year of continence. ‘One young child wet the bed one night and was forced to walk round with a sandwich board over him the next day saying what he had done,’ she said. My six-year-old daughter has started wetting the bed. Would you blame a coma victim for wetting the bed? We find children who are wetting their beds and haven't done it before. But whenever one of our children wet the bed, he claimed that they were lazy, too lazy to get up, go to the bathroom. Alison said one of her children recently wet the bed, so they had to spend the night on the sofa and floor. The family should keep track of how many times the child voids during the day and how many nights the child wets the bed. She said Luke had become withdrawn since the bullying, preferring to stay indoors, sleeping till late in the afternoon and wetting the bed regularly. Having large amounts of liquid before going to bed can make most children wet the bed. Estimates are that 20 per cent of all five-year-olds wet the bed. A few children still have trouble with wetting the bed at night. This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing. One in ten children is still wetting the bed by the age of five. If your child still wets the bed regularly, ask the doctor about ways to help decrease this behavior. His outbursts of anger were so frightening, one of his fellow teachers said, that two children had wet their pants. If both parents wet the bed when they were young, it's very likely that their child will as well. The concept of using an alarm that emits a sound when a child wets the bed was first introduced in 1938. At five years, more than one in six children still wet the bed. He still wets the bed during nights not regularly but frequently, mostly during winter when he goes to bed without going to the bathroom. 1.2wet oneself Urinate involuntarily. （自己无法控制地）尿在身上 Example sentencesExamples He had to wear a bag attached to his penis for fear of wetting himself because he could not say he wanted the toilet. Then we turned round and his missus had returned and was wetting herself laughing at us. This was unfortunate for everyone around us as we spent the rest of the week quoting lines from the film and almost wetting ourselves while all else wondered what was going on. Thankfully when the doctor tried to set my bones I conveniently wet myself and passed out with the pain. We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said. However if a child has been wet from birth, always wets himself / herself day and night, or never achieved toilet training, then it is essential to seek medical help. I know at least one person in the UK will be wetting themselves at the prospect of watching this show every night. For the last two years, I've been wetting myself when I laugh. For a movie that wets itself over the power of imagination, it doesn't show much creativity of its own. You can well imagine a young lad, his first time in battle, wetting himself with fear. Panic stations alerted, so I soused it avec water, and was sat there wetting myself while trying to dry it with the hairdryer. I even remember almost wetting myself once because I wouldn't use the school toilets after I'd heard the tale about the old care-taker who haunted the place. It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear. Is it directed by a veteran actor/star who Hollywood wets itself over? Sky almost wets herself with glee when he enters the classroom. Their ill - treatment of Victoria included beating her with a bicycle chain, tying her up and wrapping her in bin liners to prevent her wetting herself. The driver, in so much fear that he probably wet himself, sped away from the courthouse. He said his client became uncooperative at the police station after she was stopped from using the toilet and suffered the humiliation of wetting herself in front of officers. I manage to cope with the indignity well, despite the patients and nurses almost wetting themselves with laughter at the sight of me squirming as the needle is inserted. Many of us are soon going to be afraid of a good belly laugh - for fear of wetting ourselves in public. nounwɛtwet 1Liquid that makes something damp. 湿气；潮湿；水分；液体 I could feel the wet of his tears 我可以感觉到他的泪水。 Example sentencesExamples Sometimes he looks really cute and appealing, and then others he looks like he's been ridden hard and put away wet. There's far too much wet around and I think it's softened my brain. We run together down windows, streaming and sobbing and smashed into one big wet. Synonyms wetness, damp, dampness, moisture, moistness 1.1the wet Rainy weather. 下雨天 the race was held in the wet 比赛在雨天进行。 Example sentencesExamples His head was down and his ears back, his coat somewhat darker with the wet. Synonyms rain, rains, drizzle, damp weather, rainy weather, showery weather, wet weather, precipitation, spray, dew, damp 2British informal A person lacking forcefulness or strength of character. 〈英，非正式〉虚弱的，软弱的 Synonyms namby-pamby, weakling, milksop, milquetoast, baby 3US A person opposed to the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. 〈美〉反禁酒者 Phrases all wet Completely wrong. 〈北美〉完全错误的 Example sentencesExamples You don't have to be a ‘Biblical scholar’ to know that what you wrote was all wet. Your discussion of the intellectual property debate is all wet. Their publishers are all wet about copyright. I suppose we could just thank our lucky stars that all the negative prognostications were all wet and leave it at that. Since I'm not an economist, I might be all wet about this. No sooner does the Consultant Debunking Unit dip its toe back into the waters of consulting-speak than it stumbles onto jargon that turns out to be all wet. But up next, Coke's plans to sell bottled water overseas are all wet. If the polls are all wet and the final vote breaks sharply one way or the other, people will want to claim the election as a historic watershed. Jeff actually knows what he's talking about, thinks I'm all wet on this one. By the way, most people think Roberts is all wet. wet behind the ears informal Lacking experience; immature. 〈非正式〉缺乏经验；不成熟的 Example sentencesExamples Tell me son have you ever cut turf before, following up with, it's just that you look a bit wet behind the ears for this job. I went out as a sort of wet behind the ears completely ignorant 21 year old and spent 18 months in Madagascar. The new breed of politicians should no longer be wet behind the ears and need to start acting like experienced rulers. The peak and valleys paint a visual picture of the sound the newborn universe made when it was still wet behind the ears, a mere 300,000 years after its birth in a big bang. It seems a funny thing to ask, but they are clearly a little wet behind the ears. Nowadays, 32 seems a bit wet behind the ears to me, but from memory it is about the age that you start to feel like the oldest swinger in town when you step inside a nightclub. At last I was a specialist in health psychology, but still a bit wet behind the ears professionally. That's not to say that the Green movement is admitting to being wet behind the ears. A bit wet behind the ears, and failed to recreate from a place in the starting line-up what he achieved coming off the bench against Tunisia. When I moved to from the East Coast to California in 1997, I was wet behind the ears, right out of college, and I knew I was kinky. wet through (or to the skin) With one's clothes soaked; completely drenched. （衣服）完全湿透的 Example sentencesExamples She raised her head, and a rush of air cooled the patch of skin on Alex's shoulder that had been wet through his shirt by her tears. The season also throws up stark images of pedestrians, motorists and just about everyone scurrying for cover and kids wet to the skin plying paper boats. There were more than 5,000 fans squeezed into the ground and most of them got wet through. Then they won't be sitting in classrooms wet through and steaming. I think it was this weekend when I woke up to discover that my futon was actually damp, wet through from my sweating into it during the night. Then the water was shallow enough to stand up in, and he waded in towards land, his dark wool hose streaming with water and the linen wrap about his wound wet through. By the end of it we were wet to the skin and tired, but happy and all jumped out. The wool tunic and leggings on the man nearest me is wet through, his cap is flattened to his head. He was wet through so took off most of his clothes and emptied his pockets, to let everything dry off. When they travelled miles to attend Mass on a Sunday morning, often in weather conditions that had them either wet to the skin or blue with the cold when they arrived at their place of worship. wet one's whistle informal Have a drink. 〈英，非正式〉酒 Example sentencesExamples Emergency service workers struggle to make due under budgetary constraints set by a premier more interested in wetting his whistle than his forests. Because beer drinking is popular, to say the least, there are hundreds of bier halles and biergartens where you can wet your whistle. Only too happy to wet his whistle, he had two cases dispatched to his London offices yesterday. Office workers at Monks Cross who are hoping to wet their whistle after work are going to be waiting for a long time - as a bar or restaurant is not planned for the site for over 18 months. Allowing film buffs to wet their whistle while they watch is one small step along the road to York's cherished goal: civilised drinking. A heat wave has descended on Central Europe, so I decide to wet my whistle with a drink in the Westec Saloon, hoping, as I've been promised, that I'll hear some good live music. Well, how about keeping me company while I wet my whistle? Synonyms drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap Origin Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water. adj.1 phr.
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