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Definition: Wet |
WetAdjective1. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet paint"; "wet weather". 2. Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county". 3. Producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows". 4. Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen". 5. Slang for `drunk'. Noun1. Wetness caused by water; "drops of wet gleamed on the window". Verb1. Cause to become wet; "Wet your face". 2. Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | To come in contact with, and flow across (a surface, body, or area) - said of air or other fluid. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are wet, denotes that a possible pleasure may involve you in loss and disease. You are warned to avoid the blandishments of seemingly well-meaning people. For a young woman to dream that she is soaking wet, portends that she will be disgracefully implicated in some affair with a married man. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A)(Commonwealth)pertaining to wood of living trees, standing or freshly felled, or wood still containing most of the moisture present at the time of felling, i. e. above fibre-saturation point; b)(USA)pertaining to unseasoned wood, i. e. above the fibre-saturation point. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Wet To have a wet. To have a drink. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WET | English | Western European Time | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WetSynonyms: besotted (adj), blind drunk (adj), blotto (adj), crocked (adj), fuddled (adj), lactating (adj), loaded (adj), pie-eyed (adj), pissed (adj), pixilated (adj), plastered (adj), potty (adj), slopped (adj), sloshed (adj), smashed (adj), soaked (adj), soused (adj), sozzled (adj), squiffy (adj), stiff (adj), tiddley (adj), tiddly (adj), tight (adj), tipsy (adj), moisture (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: freshest (food & agriculture). |
| Antonym: dry (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moisture | Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water). |
Adjective: moist, damp; watery; madid, roric; undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral, rorid; roscid; juicy. | |
Water | Adjective: watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent; drenching. Verb: diluted. Verb: weak; wet. (moist). |
Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wet |
| English words defined with "wet": To wet one's whistle ♦ wet behind the ears. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wet": cooling with wet cooling towers ♦ GLUER, WET SUIT ♦ MILLER, HEAD, ASSISTANT, WET PROCESS ♦ PRIMER-POWDER BLENDER, WET ♦ throwaway wet scrubbing process, too wet ♦ wet adiabatic, wet blasting, wet end, Wet Finger, Wet Floodproofing, wet hiding, wet look, Wet Microburst, Wet Nurse, WET PARSON, wet printing, WET QUAKER, wet shredding. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wet": Woosy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Wet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (law), Dutch (act, law), Frisian (law). |
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Screenplays | Good Jim. Ooh, you're making me wet! (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Let's face it. The 'Vette gets 'em wet! (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) I am invisible, and I am wet. (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) My heart is falling down around my ankles like a wet pair of pants (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) | |
Lyrics | I wanna see you dance 'til your body's soak 'n wet (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men) I'm glad I got you wet (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden (Morning Has Broken; performing artist: Cat Stevens) Shine so bright in the wet U2 (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) Loving make you wet (Untitled; performing artist: D'Angelo) | |
Clever | 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen. (references; author: unknown) Drink wet cement and get really stoned. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Rex wrecks wet rocks. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pretty Wet Lips (1974) Wet Dreams (1974) In naam der wet (1968) Get Wet (1966) Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) | |
Song Titles | Big Wet Rag (performing artist: Rockapella) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Balantidium coli cyst with Trichuris egg inside. Unstained wet mount. Protozoon, roundworm, nematode, parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Getting back to the launch from shore work Hate to get those feet wet Off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Chief Boatswain Strydr Nutting slings the psychrometer to get wet and dry bulb temperatures. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A wet pond cypress depression. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Aquanaut enters the wet porch of AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Wet porch entry to HYDROLAB, way station in background. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Installing perforated drainage tubing into a wet area in north-central Iowa in the 1980's. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | NRCS assists cooperators in analyzing soil moisture by the wet ball method for irrigation scheduling and water management. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Holstein cattle in wet paddock. Credit: USDA. |  | Wet Creek riparian projectIdaho Falls Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Don Smurthwaite. |
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| "Wet Reflection" by Dianne Rigdon Commentary: "A shot in the rain." | "Wet Dog" by Jason Wain Commentary: "My dog staring down the nozzle of a hose... and the rainbow behind him." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christina Rossetti | Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. |
John Heywood | The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet. |
Virgil | O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. |
Walter F. Mondale | Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He must have had a wet ride |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And the rosy little face came up at last to be kissed, all wet with tears as it was. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | It's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In winter, the bush was black, wet, bristling, shivering, and let the house be seen in part |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They embraced softly, impelled by the grey rainy light, the wet silent trees, the shieldlike witnessing lake, the swans |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The men in the fields looked up at the clouds and sniffed at them and held wet fingers up to sense the wind |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Examine a wet mount of the sediment. (references) | |
Some cases of wet AMD can be treated with laser surgery. (references) | ||
Another sign that you may have wet AMD is rapid loss of your central vision. (references) | ||
Business | Japanese and German projects in China have used limestone technologies and wet scrubbers. (references) | |
New technologies for sludge treatment, such as wet oxidization technology, are needed to cope with the tremendous amounts of sludge. (references) | ||
The main waste management methods available for destruction of PCBs include high temperature incineration, chemical dechlorination, solvent extraction, and wet air oxidation and electrochemical techniques. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | Greece has mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. (references) |
Burkina Faso | Climate: Sahelian; pronounced wet and dry seasons. (references) | |
Nepal | RNAC is regularly in the market for wet and dry leases. (references) | |
Human Rights | Panama | The Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly also reported that prisoners at the Women's Prison of Colon suffer from overcrowding, constant semidarkness, constantly wet floors, and virtually no health care. (references) |
Trade | Bangladesh | Quality control licenses issued by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute are required to export the following items: cane molasses, shrimp and prawns (except frozen de-veined or cooked), oil cake, wet batteries and dry battery cells, electric fans and other select electric appliances, biscuits, and PVC electric cables. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Most parts of the country have fairly well defined wet and dry seasons. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Conan O'Brien | Right. I was new, green. I wet myself often on the show, and the ratings spiked when that happened. So I'm trying to do it again. |
Ed McMahon | The collar had to be just right. The scarf, you know, everything perfect. So, to have him thrown in there soaking wet, everybody loved it. All the times he nailed me, I was rejoicing when I saw that. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Wet" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.50% of the time. "Wet" is used about 3,225 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.5% | 2,886 | 3,218 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.37% | 141 | 26,682 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.07% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 2.35% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.65% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,225 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | The Wet Seal, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "wet": a bit wet ♦ A wet blanket ♦ a wet day ♦ all wet ♦ be dripping wet ♦ be soaking wet ♦ be wet ♦ be wet behind the ears ♦ be wet through ♦ becoming wet ♦ carried wet ♦ cooling with wet cooling towers ♦ dripping wet ♦ entering wet bulb temperature ♦ feel like a wet rag ♦ get slightly wet ♦ get wet ♦ get wet through ♦ getting wet ♦ ground wet ♦ grow wet ♦ have a wet ♦ have wet dreams ♦ it's wet and windy ♦ lay a wet blanket on ♦ make wet ♦ pouring wet day ♦ slightly wet ♦ soaking wet ♦ sopping wet ♦ thermostatic wet charge ♦ throwaway wet scrubbing process ♦ To wet one's whistle ♦ wet a bargain ♦ wet adhesion ♦ wet adiabatic ♦ wet air pump ♦ wet ashpit ♦ wet bar ♦ wet bargain ♦ wet behind the ears ♦ wet blanket ♦ wet bulb ♦ wet bulb temperature ♦ wet bulb thermometer ♦ wet cell ♦ wet chute ♦ wet clay ♦ wet cup ♦ wet cupping ♦ wet dock ♦ wet dream ♦ wet end ♦ wet fish ♦ wet flexural strength ♦ wet fly ♦ wet fog ♦ wet gas ♦ wet goods ♦ wet heart ♦ wet hiding ♦ wet look ♦ wet lung ♦ wet meter ♦ wet norther ♦ wet nurse ♦ wet ones whistle ♦ wet one's whistle ♦ wet oneself ♦ wet pack ♦ wet paint ♦ wet paint! ♦ wet pan ♦ wet plate ♦ wet power ♦ wet printing ♦ wet risk ♦ wet rot ♦ wet season ♦ wet separation ♦ wet shredding ♦ wet slide ♦ wet slightly ♦ wet slush ♦ wet smb.'s pants ♦ wet snow ♦ wet steam ♦ wet submarine ♦ wet suit ♦ wet takeoff ♦ wet through ♦ wet through to the skin ♦ wet through with perspiration ♦ wet throughly ♦ wet to the bone ♦ wet to the skin ♦ wet tons ♦ wet weather ♦ wet wipe ♦ wet with damp ♦ wet with saliva. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wet": wet-and-dry, wet-batteries, wet-behind-the-ears, wet-biked, wet-biking, wet-blanket, wet-blankety, wet-boatswain, wet-bulb, Wet-bulb thermometer, wet-cemented, wet-chemical, wet-day, wet-dock, wet-docks, wet-down, wet-dream, wet-dreams, wet-dry, wet-dry, wet-dry-wet-dry, wet-etching, wet-fly, wet-footed, wet-fresh, wet-glued, wet-haired, wet-headed, wet-into-wet, wet-in-wet, wet-jowled, wet-land, wet-lease, wet-look, wet-looking, wet-mi-lips, wet-nurse, wet-nurses, wet-nursing, wet-out, wet-rag, wet-rice, wet-road, wet-rotten, wet-season, wet-shave, wet-shod, wet-sieving, wet-skinned, wet-soil, wet-spun, wet-suit, wet-suited, wet-suits, wet-vacuum, wet-warm, wet-weather, wet-white, wet-wipes. | |
Ending with "wet": rain-wet, stay-wet, wet-into-wet, wet-in-wet. | |
Containing "wet": dip-wet-dip-scrub. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wet t shirt | 6,885 | wet jean | 338 |
wet pussy | 4,919 | wet bar | 328 |
wet | 3,740 | wet lesbian | 325 |
wet t shirt contest | 2,125 | wet bikini | 320 |
wet suit | 2,100 | wet pants | 298 |
wet pantie | 1,810 | pussy.cx wet | 297 |
wet seal | 1,765 | wet basement | 287 |
wet girl | 1,128 | wet and messy | 284 |
wet shirt | 1,084 | wet woman | 284 |
wet n wild | 939 | wet thong | 259 |
wet wild | 849 | wet set | 258 |
wet ivette | 845 | wet babe | 244 |
wet teen | 679 | toad the wet sprocket | 240 |
wet clothing | 569 | wet pussy free | 238 |
wet t | 566 | wet circle | 235 |
wet cunt | 483 | wet t shirt picture | 227 |
hot wet pussy | 479 | wet vagina | 219 |
wet dream | 447 | wet black pussy | 214 |
wet sex | 398 | wet tit | 214 |
wet t shirt pic | 391 | wet saw | 198 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | nat. (various references) | |
Albanian | qull (dabby, drench, get wet, gruel, mash, porridge, saturate, soak, soppy), njom (baste, dabble, dew, douse, Dunk, macerate, moisten, Rait, ret, saturate, soak, souse, steepen), me shi (inclement, pluvious, rainy), me lagështi (humid, moist, sloppy, sticky), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, drench, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wash), ku lejohen pijet alkoolike, i vlagët (humid), i patharë, i njomë (dabby, damp, dampish, dampy, dank, delicate, dewy, fresh, humid, milch, moist, muggy, new, poachy, sappy, saturated, young), i lagur (awash, dabby, damp, soggy, sopping, soppy), i lagët (damp, humid, moist, outlying, poachy, raw), i lagësht (damp, dank, humid, moist, sloppy, sour, squashy, steamy), i gabuar (Amiss, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, ill-judged, improper, incorrect, mistaken, peccant, perverse, untrue, wrong, wrongful), bëj çiçin. (various references) | |
Arabic | ندي (clammy, dewy, moist), بلل (bathe, bedew, dabble, damp, dampness, drench, moisten, moistening, soaking, sodden, wetness), رطب (clammy, dabble, dabby, damp, dampen, dank, foul, humid, humidify, moist, moisten, refresh, soggy, sour, watery), رطوبة (clamminess, dampness, humidity, moisture, wetness), خضل (bedew, moisten), خمرة (highball, plonk, sherry), طازج (caller, fresh, hot, new), بول (empty, evacuate, evacuation, make water, micturition, pass water, pee, piddle, piss, urine, wee), تندى, كحولي (alcoholic, spirituous, vinic), مبلل (damp, moist, wetted), ماء (mew, purr, water), مخضل (moist, sodden), مطر (hail, rain), مطير, محفوظ في سائل, سائلي. (various references) | |
Aymara | jurichaña (to get wet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нищожество (insect, nit, nobody, nonentity, nothing, null, nullity, pygmy, squit, whiff), дъжделив, дъждовен (juicy, moist, pluvial, rain, rainy, soft, soppy), дъждовно време, пийване (libation), пиян (cockeyed, drunk, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, tight, under the table), противник на сухия режим, лигльо (dribbler, driveller), мокрота (wetness), дъжд (avalanche, precipitation, rain, shower), мокър (moist, soggy, splashy, watery, weeping), сантиментален човек (softy), напикавам (piss), намокрям (damp, drench, moisten, slosh), некадърен (dismal, dud, feckless, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, shiftless, worthless), влажен (damp, dank, humid, juicy, madid, moist, plashy, raw, soft, soggy, sticky, watery), влажност (damp, dampness, humidity, moisture), влага (damp, dampness, humidity, moisture), консервиран в сироп, течност (dip, fluid, liquid, liquor), мокря (madefy, soak, steep, water). (various references) | |
Catalan | mullat. (various references) | |
Chinese | 溼 , 湿, 濕 (moist). (various references) | |
Czech | mokro (wetness), mokrý (damp, pluvious, rainy, soggy). (various references) | |
Danish | våd. (various references) | |
Dutch | nat (fluid, liquid). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malseka. (various references) | |
Faeroese | væta (damp), vátur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرطوب کردن (Dank), مرطوب (Humid, Moist, Muggy, Sappy, Soppy), نمناک کردن , تری (Humidity), ترکردن (Dab, Moisten), تر (Humid, Lace, Moist, Rainy, Soggy), خیس (Drunk, Rainy, Sodden, Soggy, Sop, Soppy), اشکبار (Lachrymose, Watery), رطوبت (Damp, Humidity, Moisture), بارانی (Juicy, Rainy). (various references) | |
Finnish | märkä (pus). (various references) | |
French | mouiller, humide. (various references) | |
Frisian | wiet. (various references) | |
German | nass (damp, slobbery, wetly), naß (wetly), frisch (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, freshly, keen, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, Parky, recent, sweet, undressed), befeuchten (damp, dampen, humidify, moisten, moisturize, to humidify), anfeuchten (damp, moisten, to moisten). (various references) | |
Greek | βρέχω (douse, drench, rain), μουσκεύω (drench, macerate, ret, saturate, soak, steep), υγραίνω (dabble, damp, dampen, humidify, moisten). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משקה (beverage, drink, drinking, liquor, potion, reviver), להרטיב (bathe, moisten, urinate), רטיבות (dampness, moisture, wetness), רטוב (damp, humid, moist, moisty, muggy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vizes (aqueous, watery), nedvesség (dampness, humidity, moist, moistness, moisture, seepage, wetness). (various references) | |
Icelandic | votur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | musim hujan, membasah (become moist, freshen), basah (dank, moist), bacak (moistened, soft from moisture). (various references) | |
Irish | fliuch. (various references) | |
Italian | bagnato (damp, dank, soaked, sopping, wetly), umido (damp, dank, dewily, humid, misty, moist, sloppy, soggily, soggy), inumidire (become damp, dabble, damp, dampen, moisten, moisturize), fresco (blooming, breezy, chilly, cool, coolness, crisp, fresh, green, new, recent, shady, virgin), bagnare (bathe, dabble, damp, dampen, dip, flow through, get wet, irrigate, lave, moisten, soak, sprinkle, steep, sweat, wash, water). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 湿性 , 湿式 , 湿った (damp, moist), ウェーバーの法則 (on-deck batter's circle, rag, taking a pitch, wafer, wafers, waist, waist bag, waist nipper, waist pouch, waistcoat, waistline, wait, waiter, waiting circle, waiting game, waiting room, waiting system, waitress, Wales, walk rally, walk through, walkathon, walkie-lookie, walkie-talkie, walking dictionary, walking shoes, Walkman, war cry, war game, ware, -ware, warehouse, warm, warming, warming-up, warm-up, warning lamp, waste ball, water chute, water closet, water hazard, water polo, watercolor, watercooler, waterfall, waterfront, watermelon, waterproof, watertight, wave, wave-front, way, weapon, wear, weather, weathercock, weatherstrip molding, web, Weber, Weber's law, wedding, wedding bell, wedding cake, wedding dress, wedding march, wedding ring, wedding veil, wedeling, wedge heel, wedge sole, weight, weight lifting, weight training, welcome, well-done, west, West Coast, West End, West Point, West Side, West Virginia, western, Western grip, Western league, Western music, Westinghouse, wet core, wet cut, wet suit, worm gear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっしき, しっせい (administration, administrator, correction, government, governor, misgovernment, point out errors), しめった (damp, moist), ウエット . (various references) | |
Korean | 젖는 (Wetter, Wettest). (various references) | |
Malay | membasahkan, basah. (various references) | |
Manx | ushlagh (liquid, marshy, swampy, watery), fliughys (humidity, slops, wateriness, wetness), fliughey (drench, moisten, rainfall, slake, soak, souse), fliugh (dank, humid, inclement, marshy, soggy, swampy, watery or waxy, watery or waxy of potatoes), fliaghey (precipitation, rain, rainfall), fliaghagh (pluvial, rainy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | våt. (various references) | |
Papiamen | muhá, muha (get wet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etway.(various references) | |
Polish | mokry. (various references) | |
Portuguese | molhado (dripping, madid, slobbery, soaked, watery), molhar (bathe, dampen, dip, irrigate, liquor, moisten, soak, souse, steep, wash, water). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | molhado. (various references) | |
Romanian | ud (damp, humid, moist, soaked, sodden, soggy). (various references) | |
Russian | мокрый (madid, sloppy, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, watery). (various references) | |
Scottish | fliuch. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vlažan (dabby, damp, dank, dewy, humid, moist, soggy), polivati (water), pokvašen, pokisao (dripping, sopping), natopiti (drench, imbrue, saturate, soak, steep, wash), mokar (dabby, dank, dripping, soppy), kišovit (pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, weeping). (various references) | |
Spanish | mojado (damp, damped, dampish, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, souse, watery), mojar (dabble, damp, dampen, dip, douse, drench, dunk, moisten, water). (various references) | |
Sranan | nati (dry), nat. (various references) | |
Swedish | våt (madid, plashy), väta (dabble), fuktig (dabby, damp, dank, humid, moist, soggy), färsk (fresh, good, green, new, new-laid, recent, sweet, young), blöt (soggy, soppy, watery, watwry). (various references) | |
Turkish | isteksiz kimse, ıslaklık (dewiness, moisture, sloppiness, wetness), ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water), hatalı (Amiss, delinquent, errant, erring, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, out, solecistic, unsound, wrong), içki (alcohol, alcoholic drink, booze, bottle, drink, drinking, hooch, juice, liquor, poison, potation, quencher, rum, stimulant), içki ile kutlamak, içki yasağı karşıtı, içkili (boozed, soused, stiff, tipsy), ıslak (damp, dank, liquid, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soppy, splashy, sticky, tacky, watery), isteksiz (averse, backward, disinclined, grudging, gutless, halfhearted, indisposed, jaded, languid, loath, loth, reluctant, repugnant, sticky, undesirous, undisposed, unwilling), yağmurlu hava, martavalcı, nemli (damp, dampish, dank, dewy, humid, moist), rutubet (damp, dampness, humidity, hygro-, moistness, moisture, rawness, wetness), sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, saucy, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, weak), yaş (age, dank, humid, sappy, winter, year), yağışlı (rainy), yağmurlu (pluvial, pluvious, rainy, showery, soppy), içkinin serbest olduğu. (various references) | |
Turkmen | юalpy-юaraс (complete, moist), цllemek, цl, ezmek (moisten, soak), зygly (moist, raw). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero), дощова погода, плаксивий (gushing, maudlin, weepy, whiny), примочувати, п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, winy, woozy, zigzag), безглуздий (absurd, addle-brained, addle-pated, barmy, blind, brainless, brute, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, impertinent, insane, ludicrous, meaningless, nail biting, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, senseless, wanton), мокнучий (weeping), дощовий (moist, pluvial, pluvious, rainy, soppy, watery), мочити (rait, ret, soak, sozzle, water), слізливий (lachrymose, soupy, tearful, weepy), випивка (boose, booze, damp, nosedive, pot, potation), вологий (chilly, dabby, damp, dank, humid, moisturizing, oozy, poachy, waterish), вологість (clamminess, damp, dampness, humidity, moisture, sweat, weep, wetness), рідкий (diffluent, fluid, liquid, rare, runny, slushy, sparse, thin, weak), сирий (crude, dabby, damp, dank, moist, moisty, nebulous, poachy, raw, splashy), сирість (damp, dampness, moisture, wetness), мокрий (sloppy, soppy, watery, weepy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thấm nước (bilulous), thành phố (borough, city, intramural, town), tình trạng ẩm ướt mưa, ẩm; ướt, ướt át (dank, sloppy, soppy, splashy), đẫm nước (sodden, soggy, watery). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwlyb (fluid, liquid). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ch'uulik, ch'uul (moist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contigerat, contigerit, contigerunt, contigisse, contigisset, contigit, contingat, contingatis, contingebant, contingebat, contingent, contingere, continget, contingetis, contingi, contingit, contingunt, humentibus, inriga, inrigabantur, inrigabatur, inrigabit, inrigabo, inrigans, inrigarem, inrigaret, inrigas, inrigat, madidus, perfuderit, perfudisti, perfunderentur, perfusa, perfusam, rigabo, rigans, rigant, rigat, rigavit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 4, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Akouete idou exhlqen o speirwn tou speirai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Audite ecce exiit seminans ad seminandum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ut eode se sædere his sæd to sawene. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Here ye. Lo! a man sowynge goith out to sowe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Herken to. Beholde There wet out a sower to sowe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Hearken; Behold, a sower went out to sow: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man went out to put seed in the earth: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 4, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | "Paminaw kamo! Usa ka magpupugas miadto aron sa pagsabud ug binhi. |
| Chinese | 你 們 聽 阿 ． 有 一 個 撒 種 的 ． 出 去 撒 種 。 |
| Croatian | "Poslušajte! Gle, iziðe sijaè sijati. |
| Danish | "Hører til: Se, en Sædemand gik ud at så. |
| Dutch | Hoort toe: ziet, een zaaier ging uit om te zaaien. |
| Finnish | "Kuulkaa! Katso, kylväjä lähti kylvämään. |
| French | Écoutez. Un semeur sortit pour semer. |
| Gaelic | Eisdibh: Seall chaidh fear-cuir a mach a chur. |
| German | Höret zu! Siehe, es ging ein Sämann aus, zu säen. |
| Haitian Creole | -Koute! Yon nonm soti pou li al simen grenn nan jaden li. |
| Hungarian | Halljátok: Ímé, a magvetõ kiméne vetni. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Dengarlah! Adalah seorang petani pergi menabur benih. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | "Dengarlah olehmu! Adalah seorang penabur keluar hendak menabur benih. |
| Italian | «Ascoltate. Ecco, uscì il seminatore a seminare. |
| Korean | ` 들 으 라 씨 를 뿌 리 는 자 가 뿌 리 러 나 가 서 |
| Latvian | Klausieties: lûk, sçjçjs izgâja sçt. |
| Maori | Whakarongo; Na i haere atu te kairui ki te rui: |
| Norwegian | Hør! Se, en såmann gikk ut for å så, |
