Wet

[wet] or [wɛt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; 'This eight year old boy still wets his bed'.

(verb.) cause to become wet; 'Wet your face'.

(adj.) consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; 'a wet cargo'; 'a wet canteen' .

(adj.) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; 'a wet bathing suit'; 'wet sidewalks'; 'wet weather' .

(adj.) producing or secreting milk; 'a wet nurse'; 'a wet cow'; 'lactating cows' .

(adj.) supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; 'a wet candidate running on a wet platform'; 'a wet county' .

(adj.) containing moisture or volatile components; 'wet paint' .

編輯:米兰达--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.

(superl.) Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.

(superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.

(superl.) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(a.) Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.

(a.) Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

(a.) A dram; a drink.

(imp. & p. p.) of Wet

(v. t.) To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.

編輯:齐克

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Damp, moist, humid, dank, aqueous, watery.[2]. Rainy, showery.

n. Humidity, moisture, dampness, wetness.

v. a. Moisten, water, irrigate, damp, dampen, sprinkle.

汉密尔顿校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Moist, damp, humid,[See CLOWNISH]

編輯:沃伦

解釋/意思:

adj. containing water: having water on the surface: rainy: (slang) given to drinking tipsy: (U.S.) allowing the sale of intoxicating liquors as opposed to prohibition.—n. water or wetness: moisture: act of wetting a dram a debauch.—v.t. to make wet: to soak with water: to sprinkle: (slang) to celebrate by drinking:—pr.p. wet′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. wet (rarely) wet′ted.—ns. Wet′-cup′ping the simultaneous application of a cupping-glass and the making an incision on the skin; Wet′-dock a dock or basin for floating vessels at all states of the tide; Wet′ness; Wet′-nurse a nurse who suckles a child for its mother.—adj. Wet′-shod having shoes or feet wet.—n. Wet′ting-machine′ a machine used to damp paper for printing.—adj. Wet′tish somewhat wet.—Wet bob (slang) a boy at school who goes in for rowing in preference to cricket or football; Wet bulb thermometer (see Psychrometer); Wet goods liquors; Wet meter a gas-meter in which the gas to be measured passes through water; Wet plate (phot.) a plate coated with collodion and sensitised with a salt of silver.—A wet blanket a damper kill-joy.

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