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Wetting vs Nonwetting - What's the difference?

wetting | nonwetting |

As adjectives the difference between wetting and nonwetting

is that wetting is that makes (something) wet while nonwetting is not wetting.

As a verb wetting

is .

As a noun wetting

is the act of making something wet.

wetting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making something wet.
  • * 1838 , George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c. (page 28)
    • It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings
  • The act of accidental urination on or in something.

    • Derived terms

    * bedwetting

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That makes (something) wet.

    • Derived terms

    * wetting agent

    nonwetting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not wetting.