English Dictionary

wet

IPA（発音記号）

/wɛt/

名詞

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Liquid or moisture. / Rainy weather. / (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)

日本語の意味

液体または湿気 / 雨天、雨が降る天気 / （オーストラリア）雨季（通常大文字で表記されることがある）

The wet left by the leaking roof stained the ceiling tiles.

屋根の雨漏りで残った水分が天井のタイルにシミをつけた。

意味（1）

Liquid or moisture.

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.

意味（2）

Rainy weather.

Don't go out in the wet.

意味（3）

(Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)

They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.

意味（4）

(Britain, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

意味（5）

(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.

‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’

意味（6）

(US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

意味（7）

(motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.

Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.

意味（8）

(colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.

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'.

wets （ plural ）