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Crude vs Wet - What's the difference?

crude | wet |

As adjectives the difference between crude and wet

is that crude is being in a natural state while wet is of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

As nouns the difference between crude and wet

is that crude is any substance in its natural state while wet is liquid or moisture.

As a verb wet is

to cover or impregnate with liquid.

crude

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Being in a natural state.
    • crude oil
  • Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
    • a crude shelter
  • Lacking concealing elements.
    • a crude truth
  • Lacking tact or taste.
    • a crude remark
  • (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
    • crude data
  • (archaic) Immature or unripe.
  • (lb) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word

    • Synonyms

    * (being in a natural state) raw, unrefined, unprocessed * (characterized by simplicity) primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary * (lacking concealing elements) obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised * (lacking tact or taste) blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar * raw * See'' immature''' ''or'' ' unripe * See also

    Antonyms

    * (being in a natural state) refined, processed

    Derived terms

    * crudeness * crude oil * crude material * crude form/crudeform

    Related terms

    * cruel * cruelty

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance in its natural state.
  • Crude oil.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}

    Derived terms

    * syncrude

    Anagrams

    * ----

    wet

    English

    Adjective

    (wetter)
  • Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
    • I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .
  • Of weather or a time period, rainy.
    • It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
  • * Milton
    • wet October's torrent flood
  • Made up of liquid or moisture.
    • Water is wet .
  • (informal) Of a person, ineffectual.
    • Don't be so wet .
  • (slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
    • He got me all wet .
  • (slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
    • That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.
  • (of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
  • (chemistry) 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
  • Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
  • * 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
    • The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
  • (fountain pens and calligraphy) 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.
  • (slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
    • (Prior)
  • Covered in a sauce.
  • * 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372
    • A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
  • * 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10
    • The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.
  • * 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13
    • But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.

    Synonyms

    * (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichanga

    Antonyms

    * (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dry

    Derived terms

    * all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetwork

    See also

    * moist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Liquid or moisture.
  • * Milton
    • Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
  • Rainy weather.
    • Don't go out in the wet .
  • (British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
  • (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:
    • ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’

    Verb

  • To cover or impregnate with liquid.
  • To urinate accidentally in or on.
    • Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
  • To become wet

    • Derived terms

    * wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wetting