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WETTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed
Synonyms:
bed wetter; bedwetter; wetter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wetter" is a kind of...):
pisser; urinator (a person who urinates)
Derivation:
wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("wetter" is a kind of...):
working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)
Derivation:
wet (cause to become wet)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved
Synonyms:
surface-active agent; surfactant; wetter; wetting agent
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wetter" is a kind of...):
chemical agent (an agent that produces chemical reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wetter"):
emulsifier (a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion)
detergent (a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering)
Context examples:
The role of climate change in the collapse of Classic Maya civilisation is somewhat controversial, partly because previous records are limited to qualitative reconstructions, for example whether conditions were wetter or drier.
(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)
Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to research on simulated Martian meteorites conducted, in part, at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
She was all alive again directly, and among the most active in being useful to Fanny, in detecting her to be wetter than she would at first allow, and providing her with dry clothes; and Fanny, after being obliged to submit to all this attention, and to being assisted and waited on by mistresses and maids, being also obliged, on returning downstairs, to be fixed in their drawing-room for an hour while the rain continued, the blessing of something fresh to see and think of was thus extended to Miss Crawford, and might carry on her spirits to the period of dressing and dinner.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The higher moisture content of warmer air and storms' increasing wind speeds conspire to produce wetter storms.
(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)
A major shift in atmospheric dynamics occurred during the mid-Holocene, when winter storm tracks switched and produced wetter and colder conditions in northwestern Europe, and the expansion of a Mediterranean-type climate toward southeastern Europe.
(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)
