(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.
Wot
Definition:
(imp.) of Weet
(pres. sing.) of Wit
() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour's wooing of the tabloids for the past decade and a half was born out of a misguided belief that it really was the Sun "wot won it" for John Major in 1992.
(2) In 2004, Wiley made this explicit in his single Wot U Call It , mocking the record shops, punters and media confused as to where to place him among house, garage, "urban" and grime.
(3) Only a month later, The Sun carried its light bulb lampoon of Kinnock and, when Labour lost the election, crowed: "It was The Sun wot won it."
(4) As the former News Corp executive put it: “As newspaper endorsements become less and less important, this is one way for him to maintain a high political profile.” That trend remains visible in the UK, where Murdoch pushed the power of newspaper endorsements to the limit with the Sun’s famous 1992 front page on the day after the Conservative party’s general election victory: “It’s the Sun Wot Won It” .
(5) But if there is a lasting impression that "It was the Sun wot spun it" then the party may have helped inoculate itself against future attacks.
(6) In the group of 232 inhabitants of the protective zone of Nowa Huta the Steel-Mill (181 women and 51 men) incidence of overweight and obesity was estimated using the Quetelet and Wot indices.
(7) If the group of obese persons was formed on the basis of Wot anthropometric index (which included skinfolds thickness, present body mass and height), significantly lower values of VC and FEV1 were found in comparison to non-obese counterparts.
(8) With the wisdom of hindsight, it is plain to see that despite our support among younger voters, it was the older voters wot won it.
(9) In the end it was not the Sun wot won it but Clegg wot clinched it for Cameron.
(10) id agree that its my 1st film 2 star a pigeon in a prominint role if thats wot u mean lol What was the pigeon supposed to represent?
(11) wots up with that lol You're known for keeping any details about your forthcoming cinematic projects tightly under wraps.
(12) But former deputy prime minister John Prescott said via Twitter: "It will be the Son, Daughter, Uncle, Mother and Friend Wot Win it in 2010.
(13) sportingintelligence (@sportingintel) #mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development" May 8, 2013 10.36am BST Here's a video wot we made earlier.
(14) The equation of multiple regression used for this purpose takes into account the dependence of spirometric values on age and Wot index.
(15) The pair met in John Major's HQ campaign team in 1992, bright young men with an eye to the main chance, who shared some of the credit when Major came from behind to beat Labour and seed the fateful myth that "It was the Sun Wot Won It".
(16) Had the anti-Common Market side won, it would have been the left wot won it .
(17) Its famous 1992 headline: "It's the Sun wot won it", boasted that the surprise Conservative general election victory was down to its campaign against then Labour leader Neil Kinnock.
(18) This division was based on two indices: W--including height, present body mass and age, Wot--including height, present body mass and skin-folds thickness.
(19) It's quite a bold move, but it will be able to say it was the Standard wot won it."
(20) question, but after Danny Braverman's simple, delicious storytelling show Wot?