2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, inCNN[4]:
“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, thewettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, inRail, page58:
February 2020 was officially thewettest February on record for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the secondwettest (behind 1990) for Scotland.
2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, inCNN[5]:
While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer andwetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.
This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximumwet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
"Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man iswet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he iswet if he isn't 'smooth'; he iswet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn'twet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded aswet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "
2020,Boris Johnson quoted in "Proms row: Johnson calls for end to 'cringing embarrassment' over UK history," by Jim Waterson,The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2020:
“I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination andwetness."
1811.John Adams,Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in1856.Charles Francis Adams (ed.),The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661.
The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him awet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.
He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before theWet had properly settled itself over the plains again.
2015, David Andrew,The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, Csiro Publishing, Appendix B, page 380[7]
Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'theWet') that may last from December to April[…]. TheWet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.
Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.
1990, Grant Naylor,Better Than Life:
Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them.
Alternative form ofwat(“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
1941 December, G. H. Soole, “The Mountain Section of the C.P.R.”, inRailway Magazine, page530:
There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails arewetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.
1971, Gwen White,Antique Toys And Their Background, page90:
'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automaticallywetted, scrubbed and dried.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Lord, what they are weyll / that hens ar past! / ffor thay noght feyll / theym to downe cast. / here is makyll vnceyll / and long has it last, / Now in hart, now in heyll / now inweytt, now in blast / Now in care, / Now in comforth agane, / Now is fayre, now is rane, / Now in hart full fane, / And after full sare.
Lord! They are well that are gone from here! For they do not feel anything, those who have been cast down. Here, there is much misery, and it lasts a long time: in one's heart, in hail, in rain, in wind or thunder, in care, then in comfort again, then fairness, then rain; at one point glad in heart, and after most grieved.
damages(monetary payment as compensation for a criminal act committed or as compensation for damage caused, also a court penalty imposed on a litigant)
^Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wet”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,→ISBN
^Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “wet”, inUniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA,→ISBN
B. Sieradzka-Baziur,Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “1. wet, weta”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN
2019, Kofi Yakpo,A grammar of Pichi (Studies in Diversity Linguistics;23)[11] (overall work in English and Pichinglis), Berlin: Language Science Press,→DOI,→ISBN,→ISSN, page156:
Mi gran-máwet mi gran-pá wé dɛn stíl dé láyf, dɛn-ɔ́l dɛn dé na Panyá.
My grandmotherand my grandfather, when they were still alive, they were all in Spain.
2019, Kofi Yakpo,A grammar of Pichi (Studies in Diversity Linguistics;23)[12] (overall work in English and Pichinglis), Berlin: Language Science Press,→DOI,→ISBN,→ISSN, page185:
“WET”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century],13.09.2022
