WET

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

   “Water is wet.”

2. sıfat Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

   “I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.”

3. sıfat Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

   “A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.”

4. sıfat Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

   “This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.”

5. sıfat Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
6. sıfat Of weather or a time period: rainy.

   “It’s going to be wet tomorrow.”

7. sıfat Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.

   “This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.”

8. sıfat Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.

   “That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.”

9. sıfat Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.

   “He got me all wet.”

10. sıfat Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.

    “Don’t be so wet.”

11. sıfat Permitting alcoholic beverages.

    “The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.”

12. sıfat Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

    “c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]”

13. sıfat Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
14. sıfat Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

    “the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed”

15. sıfat Involving assassination or "wet work".

    “a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff”

16. sıfat Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
17. sıfat Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
18. sıfat With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
19. isim Liquid or moisture.

    “Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.”

20. isim Rainy weather.

    “Don't go out in the wet.”

21. isim Rainy season. (often capitalized)

    “They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.”

22. isim A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
23. isim An alcoholic drink.

    “‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’”

24. isim One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

    “The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.”

25. isim A tyre for use in wet weather.

    “Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.”

26. isim A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.

    “Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.”

27. isim Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
28. fiil To cover or impregnate with liquid.

    “There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.”

29. fiil To make or become wet.

    “I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet”

30. fiil To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.

    “Johnny wets the bed several times a week.”