What's the difference between imbue and wet?

Imbue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
  • (v. t.) To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (3) Second, the thymus imbues T cells with the property of H-2-restricted recognition of antigen, that is, the capacity of T cells to react with foreign antigens presented in association with self H-2 gene products.
  • (4) Therefore, roentgenographic evidence of bone destruction or skeletal stigmata of hyperparathyroidism imbues laboratory data with greater significance.
  • (5) They share language, values and attitudes, all imbued during a common childhood and youth.
  • (6) But Fulham were unshackled, imbued with enhanced belief and, when Dejagah crossed low from the right, Richardson, an integral part of West Bromwich Albion's great escape round these parts in 2005, dispatched a fierce, left-footed shot into the far top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
  • (7) And whatever else happens, get some teachers and school leaders on this committee – people from the chalkface imbued with common sense and the experience to make the right decisions.
  • (8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
  • (9) Physiognomic perception, a cognitive style dimension through which people imbue objects with varying degrees of affect, was measured by a standardized and validated instrument known as the Stein Physiognomic Cue Test.
  • (10) A clean and thorough audit was integral to the imbuing the new administration with full legitimacy, he added.
  • (11) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
  • (12) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
  • (13) The struggle against the enemy is imbued in people from the earliest age.
  • (14) Some people – often due to earlier, familial experiences of loving an unavailable person such as an absent or depressed mother – tend to find themselves in adult relationships where they continue to remain imbued with longing.
  • (15) Biology engineers structures on the molecular scale but biomolecules do not seem to be imbued with useful electronic properties.
  • (16) The days when many members of mainstream parties, particularly on the left, refused to share a platform with extremists to avoid imbuing them with political legitimacy appear to be over.
  • (17) In fact, I would be Hayley, had a troop of philanthropic Guardianistas not adopted me from a Yates's Wine Lodge car park in the late-90s, weaned me on a diet of polenta chips, broad bean-based mezze and exemplary goose eggs, and then imbued me with a love of special "Tandem Riding In Andalucia" travel supplements and freeing Burma or boycotting Burma, or whatever we're doing with Burma this week (I'm never sure).
  • (18) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
  • (19) Significantly, perhaps, having witnessed the failure of two bright new dawns - those of postwar communism and post-cold war capitalism - the Leipzig painters are seen as having an atmosphere of disillusionment in common; their work is imbued with a deep melancholy.
  • (20) Recalling the year's challenges – sporting, logistical and meteorological — she spoke of the sense of achievement and demonstration of public-spiritedness that had imbued the nation during 2012.

Wet


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
  • (2) Azure B also reduced the wet weight of carrageenin-induced granulomas in rats.
  • (3) The various changes were accompanied by a marked reduction in the overall wet weight of the vertebrae.
  • (4) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (5) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
  • (6) This led to an increase in liver wet weight and total DNA.
  • (7) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (8) During DOCA treatment over 4 weeks, the decrease of muscle wet weight was greater in the EDL muscles.
  • (9) Lipase level per unit wet tissue and total pancreatic levels increased from 2 to 35 d of age in suckling pigs (P less than .01).
  • (10) Collagen concentrations based on wet or dry weight and glycosaminoglycan concentrations based on wet weight decreased during this period.
  • (11) A new wet-state membrane characterization method, thermoporometry, was used to study the effect on membrane structure of commonly used sterilization methods for artificial kidney membranes.
  • (12) All but one of the isolations were made from moist or wet samples.
  • (13) Systemic administration of drugs that augment 5-HT2 activity generally induces 'wet dog' shaking (WDS) in rats.
  • (14) Sixteen patients who remained wet had detrusor instability; 9 of these were cured by anticholinergic medications.
  • (15) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
  • (16) The after-discharge induced by subconvulsant electrical stimulations, is followed by a behavioral phenomenon, named Wet Dog Shakes (WDS).
  • (17) The deleted peptide corresponds precisely to the sequence coded by exon 46 of the normal pro-alpha 1(I) gene (Chu, M.-L., de Wet, W., Bernard, M., Ding, J.F., Morabito, M., Myers, J., Williams, C., and Ramirez, F. (1984) Nature 310, 337-340).
  • (18) Associated with this increase in epidermal wet weight is a two times increase in the number of epidermal cells per millimeter of interfollicular epidermis.
  • (19) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
  • (20) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.

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