Wet vs Climate - What's the difference?
wet | climate |
Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.
Of weather or a time period, rainy.
* Milton
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.
* Milton
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
(obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
(obsolete) A region of the Earth.
The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
(figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
(poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
* 1610 , , V. i. 169:
As nouns the difference between wet and climate
is that wet is liquid or moisture while climate is an area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.As verbs the difference between wet and climate
is that wet is to cover or impregnate with liquid while climate is to dwell.As an adjective wet
is of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.wet
English
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.
- (Prior)
- 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.
Derived terms
* wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wettingclimate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate .
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Derived terms
* acclimate * acclimatise, acclimatize * climate change * political climateVerb
(climat)- The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!