Wet
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- The condition of being liquidLiquidLiquid is one of the three classical states of matter . Like a gas, a liquid is able to flow and take the shape of a container. Some liquids resist compression, while others can be compressed. Unlike a gas, a liquid does not disperse to fill every space of a container, and maintains a fairly...
or being covered in liquid - Adequately wetAdequately wetThe phrase "adequately wet" is an environmental term referring to the handling of asbestos containing work, such as the demolition of older houses containing carcinogenic asbestos tiles or roof materials. Since there is no minimum threshold for a safe level of outdoor asbestos particle...
, environmental term referring to asbestos-containing material that is sufficiently mixed or penetrated with liquid to prevent the release of particulates - Wet nanotechnology, a nanotechnology procedure involving water
- Wat (food)Wat (food)Wat, wet, or wot , known as tsebhi in Tigrinya is an Ethiopian and Eritrean stew or curry which may be prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, a variety of vegetables, and spice mixtures such as berbere and niter kibbeh, a seasoned clarified butter.Several properties distinguish wats from stews of...
, also called wet, a type of stew in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine - Wet (magazine)Wet (magazine)Wet was an avant-garde Los Angeles-based magazine that revolved around the idea of "gourmet bathing" and later evolved to "gourmet bathing and beyond." Its publisher and creator was Leonard Koren, an architecture school graduate...
, a magazine about "gourmet bathing" from the late 1970s - Wet: The Sexy EmpireLula: The Sexy EmpireLula: The Sexy Empire is a business simulation game for Windows. The game revolves around building a multi-million dollar erotica industry...
, a 1998 business simulation game - Wet (video game)Wet (video game)Wet is a 2009 third-person shooter action video game, developed by Artificial Mind and Movement and published by Bethesda Softworks for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles. The game puts heavy emphasis on killing a large number of opponents while engaging in stylish acrobatic moves...
, a 2009 video game - Wet LubricantsWet LubricantsWet Lubricants is a brand of personal lubricants produced by Wet International, part of Trigg Laboratories in Valencia, California. The line includes a variety of water based, silicone based and oil based lubricants, as well as massage oils and shaving creams....
, a brand of personal lubricants produced by Trigg Laboratories in Valencia, CA - PhencyclidinePhencyclidinePhencyclidine , commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, is a recreational dissociative drug...
(PCP), a dissociative anesthetic - Wet Willie, an American band from Mobile, Alabama, U.S., best known for their hit "Keep On Smilin'"
- Wet Bow-tie
- Wet T-shirt contestWet T-shirt contestA wet T-shirt contest is an exhibitionistic beauty contest that typically features young women performing at a nightclub, bar, or resort. They have traditionally been a staple of college spring break celebrations at locations such as Daytona Beach and Cancún.Contest participants generally wear...
, an exhibitionistic beauty contest that typically features young women performing at a nightclub, bar, or resort - All wet, an American slang term from the 1920s depicting either an incorrect idea or an incorrect person
WET may stand for:
- Western European TimeWestern European TimeWestern European Time , defined legally as Greenwich Mean Time in the United Kingdom, is the time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe, and includes the following countries and regions:...
, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, the time zone used in the UK, Ireland, and Portugal, among other countries - Weightless Environmental Test, testing of space technology and procedures under simulated weightlessness. This is normally achieved in water pools with neutral buoyancyNeutral buoyancyNeutral buoyancy is a condition in which a physical body's mass equals the mass it displaces in a surrounding medium. This offsets the force of gravity that would otherwise cause the object to sink...
models - WET Design, the company that created the Fountains of Bellagio
- Wolfenstein: Enemy TerritoryWolfenstein: Enemy TerritoryWolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free and open source multiplayer first-person shooter video game set during World War II...
, a 2003 video game - Wuest Expanded TranslationWuest Expanded TranslationThe Wuest Expanded Translation is a literal New Testament translation that follows the word order in the Greek quite strictly.For example, John 1:1–3 reads:-External links:**...
, a 1961 translation of the New Testament by Kenneth Wuest - WET Web TesterWET Web TesterWET Web Tester is a web testing tool that drives an IE Browser directly and so the automated testing done is equivalent to how a user would drive the web pages. The tool allows a user to perform all the operations required for testing web applications like automatically clicking a link, entering...
, an automated web testing tool
Music
- Wet (album)Wet (album)Wet is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1979. The album is a concept album of sorts with all the songs referring to, or expressing different interpretations of, water...
, an album released in 1979 by Barbra Streisand. - "Wet" (Snoop Dogg song), a 2010 single from his album DoggumentaryDoggumentaryDoggumentary is the eleventh studio album by American hip hop artist Snoop Dogg; released by Priority Records on March 29, 2011. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2010 to 2011...
. - "Wet" (Nicole Scherzinger song)Wet (Nicole Scherzinger song)"Wet" is a song by American recording artist Nicole Scherzinger, taken from her debut studio album Killer Love . The song was written by Ester Dean and Traci Hale, co-written and produced by Norwegian duo StarGate "Wet" is a song by American recording artist Nicole Scherzinger, taken from her debut...
, a 2011 single from the US singer's album Killer LoveKiller LoveKiller Love is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Nicole Scherzinger, former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. It was released from March 18, 2011 in international markets by Interscope Records, in association with its affiliated record labels...
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Politics
- The wetsWetsDuring the 1980s, members of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom who opposed some of the more hard-line policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were often referred to as "wets"...
, members of the British Conservative Party on the left of the Party - Wets, slang for opponents of Prohibition in the United StatesProhibition in the United StatesProhibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining which...
- Wet area, an area that allows the sale of alcoholAlcoholIn chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxy functional group is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms....
, the opposite of a Dry countyDry countyA dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages. Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and some prohibit both. Hundreds of dry counties exist across the United States, almost all of them in the South...
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Places
- Wet MountainsWet MountainsThe Wet Mountains are a small range of mountains in southern Colorado named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter. There are three variant names of this range: Cuerno Verde, Greenhorn Mountains, and Sierra Mojadas...
, a mountain range in southern Colorado - Wet MoorWet MoorWet Moor is a 491.0 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Muchelney in Somerset, notified in 1985.Wet Moor is part of the extensive grazing marsh grasslands and ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors....
, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Muchelney in Somerset - Wet AndesWet AndesThe Wet Andes is a climatic and glaciological subregion of the Andes. Together with the Dry Andes it is one of the two subregions of the Argentine and Chilean Andes. The Wet Andes runs from a latitude of 35°S to Cape Horn at 56°S. According to Luis Lliboutry the Wet Andes can be classified after...
, a climatic and glaciological subregion of the Andes
See also
- All articles starting with "wet"
- WettingWettingWetting is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together. The degree of wetting is determined by a force balance between adhesive and cohesive forces.Wetting is important in the bonding or adherence of...
, the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface