Wet
Meanings and phrases
wet
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- very drunk; besotted; blind drunk; blotto; crocked; cockeyed; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight
- containing moisture or volatile components
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- producing or secreting milk; lactating
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
wet
- wetness caused by water; moisture
wet
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
n.
- acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.; adult respiratory distress syndrome; ARDS; white lung
n.
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else; wet-nurse; wetnurse; amah
- Her mother was Yoshinaka's wet nurse.
- The relationship is that formed by suckling from the breast of a wet nurse.
- Linnaeus suggested that children might absorb the personality of their wet nurse through the milk.
n.
- a close-fitting garment made of a permeable material; worn in cold water (as by skin divers) to retain body heat
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- The city has a distinct wet season and dry season.
- In the wet season it can descend to 1200 m altitude.
- Births tend to take place during the wet season.
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- The base of the stem turns sticky in wet weather.
- Early firearms were inferior in rate-of-fire, and were very sensitive to wet weather.
- The race featured many lead changes and ended in wet weather, with Robert Doornbos emerging victorious.
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- The Kalinga practice both wet and dry rice farming.
- It has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen: Aw).
- Beriberi is seen in two forms: wet and dry.
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- The accident was attributed to excessive speed and wet conditions.
- Non-hydraulic cement does not set in wet conditions or under water.
- The Lexus LFA test numbers also reflect the implications of testing in the wet conditions.
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- Births tend to take place during the wet season.
- Roth's tree frog breeds during the wet season, from November to March.
- Females mark more often during the wet season when they are in estrus.
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- It is also very wet by Victorian standards.
- Decomposition rates are low under very wet or very dry conditions.
- A very wet growing medium can cause both seeds and seedlings to rot.
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- They are more likely to be found in wet forests.
- The habitat consists of dense, wet forests.
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- There are wet areas which support marshy vegetation.
- There are ditches and wet areas generally.
- The fungus prefers wet areas, like riparian forests and fens.
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- It shines when wet and reflects its surroundings.
- Papers vary in texture, hue, acidity, and strength when wet.
- Slightly sticky when wet, the cap surface is shiny and smooth.
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- Heavy rains in late 1314 began several years of cold and wet winters.
- The climate is characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
- In general, the island experiences mild wet winters and dry hot summers.
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- It is a perennial herb growing from 0.03 to 0.04 m high, in seasonally wet moss and herbfields among granite rocks.
- "Microtis orbicularis" grows in swamps and seasonally wet depressions, sometimes with the base of the plant submerged.
- "Microtis quadrata" grows in seasonally wet depressions and in swampy mounds in near-coastal areas between Perth and Augusta.
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- It has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen: Aw).
- Vasai-Virar has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen: Aw).
- Under Köppen climate classification, Rajshahi has a tropical wet and dry climate.
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- The site comprises marshes, seasonally flooded wet meadows, with limestone outcrops and scrub at its margins.
- In terms of plants, Studenchishte supports a wide variety of habitats including alkaline marshes and fens, and semi-natural wet meadows.
- In contains about two hundred shallow basins floored by layers of sand and clay, holding wet meadows, salt flats, marshes and fresh water ponds.
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- It occurs in lowland wet forest in Amazonian Peru.
- It occurs in lowland wet forest from eastern Ecuador to western Brazil (Rondônia).
- The wet forest in which it grows has a biodiverse fauna of reptiles and amphibians.
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- It grows in wet heath and on the side of a road.
- This elbow orchid grows in wet flats in forest in New Guinea.
- "Dienia ophrydis" grows in wet forests, often near streams and swampy areas.
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- Jacó lies in a tropical climate zone mainly defined by distinct dry and wet seasons.
- The prevailing climatic conditions in the barangay are categorized into two (2) types: dry and wet season.
- It is one of the most common dragonflies in Asia, found in both the plains and hills and in dry and wet areas.