What's the difference between weet and whet?

Weet


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Wet.
  • (v. i.) To know; to wit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Akers also spoke of the progress of the Weeting phone-hacking inquiry, agreeing with the characterisation put to her by Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, that she was "closer to the finishing line than the starting gun".
  • (2) Most of the evidence that officers of the Yard's Operation Weeting are studying deals with the News of the World's activity during 2005 and 2006, by which time Brooks had left the paper to edit the Sun.
  • (3) The arrests represent the third alleged phone hacking conspiracy identified by Scotland Yard since Operation Weeting began in 2010.
  • (4) A similar review by Durham Police was carried out into the phone hacking investigation, Operation Weeting, which identified a lack of coordination in the way victims were being approached and spoken to.
  • (5) "The arrests were made at approximately 0600 hours by officers from Operation Elveden which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the MPS inquiry into the phone-hacking of voicemail boxes.
  • (6) The police argued in court that, although there had been some failures, Operation Weeting had provided an adequate remedy and there was no case for a judicial review.
  • (7) Akers also said there were a total of 6,349 potential victims in various evidence collated by the Weeting team, although only a small proportion of these could be identified as likely phone-hacking victims.
  • (8) Operation Weeting, they say, is specific to the activities of disgraced private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and his attempts to access voicemail messages, and therefore a new inquiry may be required.
  • (9) He is the sixth person to be arrested by the Weeting team.
  • (10) Operation Weeting, which is responsible for Tuesday's arrests, is the third investigation into hacking run by Scotland Yard.
  • (11) This step came after executives who had joined NI more recently discovered its existence and sent it to the Operation Weeting team investigating News of the World phone hacking.
  • (12) Operation Elveden, which runs alongside the Met's Operation Weeting team, was launched as the phone-hacking scandal deepened last July.
  • (13) Foskett explained that he was reversing the earlier refusal to allow the claimants to pursue a judicial review because the fresh police investigation into the scandal, Operation Weeting, had produced significant new evidence to support their claims.
  • (14) In July this year, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, the senior detective in charge of the Operating Weeting inquiry into phone hacking said there were just under 4,000 victims identified at that time by officers.
  • (15) It is running in parallel with the Met's phone-hacking investigation, Operation Weeting.
  • (16) Operation Weeting is focused on the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for hacking voicemail in January 2007.
  • (17) In lumbar case a two ways procedure in 3 weetes space permitted complete removal, a monoparesia and sphincters troubles, regressive spontaneously in 5 months, complicated first performed laminectomy.
  • (18) The four were all arrested by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting inquiry into alleged phone-hacking.
  • (19) Morgan was interviewed under caution in December 2013 officers working on Operation Weeting.
  • (20) The Metropolitan police confirmed on Friday: “On 23 July following an investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World, detectives from Op Weeting submitted a file to the CPS for their consideration.” The CPS did not specify under which law it would consider charges.

Whet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
  • (v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage.
  • (n.) The act of whetting.
  • (n.) That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In each instance, the interest in foreign models was whetted by a perceived social emergency: the heroin epidemic following World War II and the HIV epidemic of the last decade.
  • (2) I’ll be back soon with more build up and team news, but for now get your thoughts, predictions and pedantry coming in to @KidWeil or graham.parker.freelance@guardiannews.com and to further whet your appetite, here’s what happened when these sides last met, during the semi-final round of World Cup qualifiers last September - have we mentioned the Grind™ of Concacaf qualification yet?
  • (3) We'd found some great beaches but these had only whetted our appetites.
  • (4) I've had a good few chats with them and it's whetted my appetite.
  • (5) All the men in attendance wore purple gladioli in the pockets, a huge picture of Oscar Wilde presided over the ceremony, and before Julie entered the room in her cream wedding dress, the intro music Morrissey uses for his live shows whetted the appetite of the guests.
  • (6) Our interest in the question has been whetted by the finding to date of some eight possible examples of a founder effect in studies of twelve different tribes.
  • (7) I know scientists have got to whet the appetite for future publications, but this is just too tantalizing.
  • (8) He returns to our screens later this month in Drake Doremus's New York based drama Breathe In , so to whet your appetite we're taking a look at five of his best performances.
  • (9) Until February 14 and then February 28 with concessions, according to the old familiar routine, tossed to us to whet our appetite for hope and further waiting.
  • (10) Here's a little sample to whet your appetite … • Derek Malcolm on Kieslowski ahead of a film season celebrating his work in 2003.
  • (11) Cresswell also has a production company, Open Mike Productions, whose series of comedy shows starring Michael McIntyre, another Cresswell client, single-handedly whetted broadcasters' new-found appetite for standup.
  • (12) The data are discussed in the context of the effects of priming as a form of appetite whetting.
  • (13) While the emphasis is on medical and nursing libraries, other libraries of various types and sizes are included in order to whet the appetites of librarians visiting Boston in 1966.
  • (14) If anything, an accomplished debut only whetted the appetite for more.
  • (15) Managing a team again, albeit for an exhibition before the Fifa Congress, had whetted Mourinho’s appetite for a return to coaching.
  • (16) Finally, the public's appetite is whetted by the increasing number of heritable diseases whose molecular basis is being elucidated.
  • (17) 7.59pm BST I'm already two pies down and have whetted my appetite with the Hairy Bikers' Norway montage.
  • (18) Twofour's precursor to Educating Yorkshire, Educating Essex, appeared on C4 two years ago, and whetted the appetite for a sequel.
  • (19) From this point on, the great drama in his life and work consisted of his battle to frustrate journalists and would-be groupies, whose interest in his life had been whetted by what seemed to them – not without reason – the autobiographical element in his fiction.
  • (20) "This game is whetting my appetite, especially after Portugal's less than impressive performance earlier.

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