Wet vs Cold - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between wet and cold

is that wet is of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid while cold is (label) having a low temperature.

As nouns the difference between wet and cold

is that wet is liquid or moisture while cold is a condition of low temperature.

As a verb wet

is to cover or impregnate with liquid.

As an adverb cold is

while at low temperature.

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

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

cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(label) Causing the air to be cold.

(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):

RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .

Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

(label) Cornered, done for.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .

(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

Synonyms

* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See also

Antonyms

* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, ready

Derived terms

* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

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