wet

wet

1. rainy, foggy, misty, or humid

2. employing a liquid, usually water

3. Chiefly US and Canadian characterized by or permitting the free sale of alcoholic beverages

4. damp or rainy weather

5. Brit informal a Conservative politician who is considered not to be a hard-liner

6. Chiefly US and Canadian a person who advocates free sale of alcoholic beverages

7. the wet Austral (in northern and central Australia) the rainy season

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wet

[wet]

(physics)

A liquid is said to wet a solid if the contact angle between the solid and the liquid, measured through the liquid, lies between 0 and 90°, and not to wet the solid if the contact angle lies between 90 and 180°.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.