What's the difference between wept and wet?

Wept


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Weep
  • () imp. & p. p. of Weep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week, he wept as he signed an executive order on gun control .
  • (2) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
  • (3) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
  • (4) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
  • (5) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
  • (6) She wept for another hour before she turned to face me.
  • (7) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
  • (8) In the unsaddling area she wept uncontrollably and hugged her mother, boyfriend and her mentor and fellow team member Carl Hester, who came fifth here.
  • (9) Both Bob and Maureen bowed their heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from the court clerk.
  • (10) Mothers appeared and wept for lost sons and daughters.
  • (11) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
  • (12) He wept openly while being interviewed pitch-side by the same TV Globo reporter (Tino Marcos) who in 2010 looked embarrassed when the keeper started choking on his own tears when prompted to discuss his fluffed attempt to punch a Wesley Sneijder cross which led to the winning goal.
  • (13) The day after the ruling, celebrity chef Paula Deen went on the Today show and wept over accusations of racial and sexual harassment that are destroying her empire.
  • (14) Bhutto's supporters at the hospital wept, smashed the glass doors and started fires around the hospital periphery.
  • (15) So what if Júlio César wept after flying like a bird and saving two penalties?
  • (16) Gary Glitter wept in the dock as he blamed a collapsing career, financial troubles and being in a “bad place” for his decision to download images of men sexually abusing young children on to his computer.
  • (17) "I couldn't stop crying when the final whistle went," wept their centre-half Sam Allardyce.
  • (18) The inscription at the foot of the cathedral's bell tower reads: "When He beheld the city, He wept over it.
  • (19) Earlier, during the bail hearing's third day, Pistorous wept as the defence advocate Barry Roux summed up his case.
  • (20) Some of the senators wept at her story, she said, and then later voted against her.

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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