wet
part of speech
adjective (wet, wetter, wettest); verb (wet, wets, wet/wetted, wetting); noun (the wet)
meaning for a pupil
1) Covered with or full of water or another liquid: "wet hair". tree →
2) Rainy: "a wet day". tree →
3) Not yet dry: "wet paint". tree →
4) As a verb, to make something wet. tree →
5) Wet can also be a noun meaning a drink, especially water or another non-alcoholic drink. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, wet things dry when water evaporates; water makes things heavier and slippery. In safety: wet floors are slippery; never touch plugs or switches with wet hands — water carries electricity; change out of wet clothes in the cold. Phrases: soaking wet, wet through, wet paint, wet weather.
examples
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. (Writings JOB.24.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- My shoes are wet from the rain. tree →
- Careful, the floor is wet. tree →
- Never touch a plug with wet hands. tree →
- Wet paint — don't touch! tree →
- It was a wet and windy day. tree →
- Wet the cloth and wipe the table. tree →
- Hang the wet towels in the sun to dry. tree →
- We got soaking wet. tree →
- “Water or wet, or whatever you please, sir.” tree →
note
Double the t: wetter, wettest, wetting. Opposite: dry. Wet and electricity are dangerous together. "Wet" sounds a bit like "whet" (to sharpen) — rare.
In the corpora
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- You never got wet.
- Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.
- Breathe on a cold window and the mist shows that the air you breathe out is warm and wet from inside you.
- Male sandgrouse soak their belly feathers at a waterhole and fly many kilometres back to their chicks, which drink from the wet feathers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.