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# wet

«wet» in Mova's school dictionary: **Covered with or full of water or another liquid: "wet hair"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#m1)

2) Rainy: "a wet day". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#m2)

3) Not yet dry: "wet paint". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#m3)

4) As a verb, to make something wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#m4)

5) Wet can also be a noun meaning a drink, especially water or another non-alcoholic drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x1)
- Careful, the floor is wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x2)
- Never touch a plug with wet hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x3)
- Wet paint — don't touch! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x4)
- It was a wet and windy day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x5)
- Wet the cloth and wipe the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x6)
- Hang the wet towels in the sun to dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x7)
- We got soaking wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x8)
- “Water or wet, or whatever you please, sir.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/2/)
- [Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/7/)
- [Breathe on a cold window and the mist shows that the air you breathe out is warm and wet from inside you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/66-lungs-and-breathing/3/)
- [Male sandgrouse soak their belly feathers at a waterhole and fly many kilometres back to their chicks, which drink from the wet feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/16/)
- [In many glass frogs the father guards the eggs on a leaf, keeping them wet and safe from wasps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.