Hot vs Wet - What's the difference?
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Of an object, having a high temperature.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
Of the weather, causing the air to be hot.
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Of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
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Feverish.
Of food, spicy.
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(lb) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
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Stolen.
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(lb) Electrically charged
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(lb) Radioactive.
(lb) Of a person, very physically or sexually attractive.
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Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
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Popular; in demand.
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Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
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Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
*1938 , Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:
*:"Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
*2002 , Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:
*:The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
Fresh; just released.
*1960 , Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:
*:A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot .
*2000 , David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:
*:Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot .
Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
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To heat; to make or become hot.
To become lively or exciting.
Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
Of weather or a time period, rainy.
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Made up of liquid or moisture.
(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.
(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.
(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.
* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
(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.
Covered in a sauce.
* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372
* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10
* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13
Liquid or moisture.
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Rainy weather.
(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:
To cover or impregnate with liquid.
To urinate accidentally in or on.
To become wet
As nouns the difference between hot and wet
is that hot is a whit, a bit while wet is liquid or moisture.As an adjective wet is
of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.As a verb wet is
to cover or impregnate with liquid.hot
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Alternative forms
* (physically attractive) hawt (slang, especially Internet''), hott (''slang, especially Internet )Adjective
(hotter)Quotations
* (English Citations of "hot")Synonyms
* (having a high temperature) heated; see also * (of the weather) baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering * (feeling the sensation of heat) baking, boiling, boiling hot * (feverish) feverish, having a temperature * (spicy) piquant, spicy, tangy * stolen * (electrically charged) live * (radioactive) radioactive * attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummyAntonyms
* (having a high temperature) chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy * (of the weather) cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy * (feeling the sensation of heat) freezing, freezing cold * (spicy) bland, mild * (electrically charged) neutral, dead * (slang) lifelessDerived terms
* a bit hot * as hot as hell, hot as hell * boiling hot * blow hot and cold * catch it hot, get it hot * give it to someone hot * give it to someone hot and strong * go hot and cold * go like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes * have the hots for * hot air * hot and bothered * hot-and-hot * hot bed * hot beef * hot blast * hot-blooded * hot bottle * hot box * hot-brain * hot-brained * hot bulb * hot button * hot cathode * hot chair * hot check * hot chisel * hot-closet * hot cockles * hot coppers * hot cross bun * hot cupboard * hot damn * hot date * hot diggety, hot diggety dog * hot-dip * hot-dipped * hot dipping * hot dog * hot favorite, hot favourite * hot flash, hot flush * hot-flue * hotfoot * hot from the press, hot off the press * hot gospeler, hot gospeller * hot gospeling, hot gospelling * hot hatch * hot-hatch * hothead * hotheaded * hot-hoof * hot-house, hothouse * hot-iron test * hot-key * hot laboratory * hot line, hotline * hotly * hot-making * hot melt, hot-melt adhesive, hot-melt glue * hot metal * hot money * hotness * hot on * hot on someone's heels * hot-panted, hot-pantsed * hot pants * hot pint * hotplate * hotpot * hot potato * hot-press * hot-presser * hot property * hot rod, hotrod * hot-rodder, hotrodder * hot-saw * hot seat * hot set * hot shift * hot shoe * hot-short * hotshot * hot-skull * hot-spirited * hot spot * hot spring * hotspur * hot squat * hot-stopping * hot-stove * hot stuff * hot-swap * hot tap * hot tear * hot tearing * hot-tempered * hotter * hottie * hotting * hottish * hot to trot * hot-trod * hot tub * hot tube * hot under the collar * hot up * hot wall * hot war * hot water * hot wave * hot well * hot wind * hot-wire * hot-wired * hot with * hot-work * hot-working * in hot pursuit * like a cat on hot bricks * make it hot for, make things hot for * run hot * smoking hot * too hot for * too hot to holdVerb
Synonyms
* hot up; heat, heat upStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----wet
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Adjective
(wetter)- I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .
- It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
- wet October's torrent flood
- Water is wet .
- Don't be so wet .
- He got me all wet .
- That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.
- the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
- The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.
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- A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
- The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.
- 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) chimichangaAntonyms
* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dryDerived terms
* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetworkSee also
* moistNoun
(en noun)- Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.
- Don't go out in the wet .
- ‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’
Verb
- Johnny wets the bed several times a week.