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
- 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
- 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.
- In many glass frogs the father guards the eggs on a leaf, keeping them wet and safe from wasps.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.