word-vault/dist/data/cards/we/wet.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "wet",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "covered with or containing liquid, especially water",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "wet clothes/hair/grass"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You'll **get wet** *(= in the rain)* if you go out now."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try not to get your shoes wet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face was wet with tears."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were all **soaking wet** *(= extremely wet)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her hair was still **dripping wet**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My shirt was **wet through** *(= completely wet)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mind you don't get your feet wet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The grass was wet with dew."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We got soaking wet just going from the car to the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were wet through and cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car had skidded in the wet road."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["with"],
                "phrases": ["wet through"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "with rain",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a spell of cold, **wet weather**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a wet climate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's the best thing to do with young children on a wet day?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's wet** outside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's going to be wet tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the wettest October for many years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather will be wet and windy in the south."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's still a little wet outside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather may turn wet later on in the week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "permanently wet conditions"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["with"],
                "phrases": ["wet through"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not yet dry",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep off! Wet paint."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "if a child or its nappy is wet, its nappy is full of urine",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "not having a strong character",
            "labels": "(British English)(informal, disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Don't be so wet,’ she laughed."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "feeble, wimpish"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "completely wrong",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to start doing something that is new for you",
            "labels": "(especially North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At that time he was a young actor, just getting his feet wet."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "young and without much experience",
            "labels": "(informal, disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was still wet behind the ears, politically."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wet/",
                "audio": "we/wet/wet__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/wet/",
                "audio": "we/wet/wet__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English wǣt (adjective and noun), wǣtan (verb); related to water."
}