单词 | wet room |
释义 | wet roomn. 1. A room which houses a manufacturing or industrial process using water or liquid. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > others cutting room1700 pearl fishery1702 refinery1716 gin house1796 dressing shed1802 ginning house1819 boring-mill1833 sorting office1851 gut-scrapery1854 conditioning house1858 packery1861 washery1875 try-house1891 wet room1901 pump-out1935 1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 670/1 My office is just under our ‘wet room’ (the usual term for the department where liquid pharmaceutical preparations are kept and prepared). 1946 Sci. Monthly Mar. p. i (caption) ‘Wet room’ where ASTM C-9 Tests are run under specified humidity and temperature. 1988 Daily Tel. 15 Feb. 15/4 The paper is brought from great racks in the wet-room and dampened so that the heavy hand-presses can force the paper into grooves on the plates. 2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Apr. b26 He's just finished pressure-washing the bench in the ‘wet room’ of his Glen Cove furniture-manufacturing plant. 2. Diving. A chamber on a ship, diving platform, etc., with a large opening in the floor allowing divers to enter and exit the water directly. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > other specific rooms on naval vessel powder room1582 powder magazine1712 engine room1749 pressroom1813 light box1860 wet room1970 1970 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 17 May d8/4 A wet room..is continuously left open to the sea for easy access in entering and leaving the habitat. 1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 15 July 4 b It has three portholes and three chambers: a wet room in which the aquanauts come and go in scuba gear, a recreational room with a galley, and sleeping quarters divided into two rooms with bunk beds. 2005 J. Motavalli Feeling Heat viii. 129 I swim under the metal skirt of the habitat, popping up in the wet room where a school of yellowtail snapper huddle discreetly at the edge of the entry pool. 3. a. A room in a building to which there is a water supply, such as a kitchen, bathroom, or utility room; a plumbed room. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others hell1310 summer hall1388 summer parloura1425 paradise1485 fire room1591 garden room1619 ease-room1629 portcullis1631 divan1678 but?1700 sluttery1711 rotunda1737 glass casea1777 dungeon1782 hall of mirrors1789 balcony-chamber1800 showroom1820 mirror room1858 vomitorium1923 mosquito room1925 refuge room1937 quiet room1938 Florida room1968 roomset1980 wet room1982 1982 Financial Times 18 Jan. 8/3 The board has outstanding resistance to weathering and humidity which makes it ideal for use..in wet rooms. 1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 3 Mar. e22 Interior finishes found in the homes include oak trimmed staircases, hard wearing vinyl flooring in the wet rooms and soft broadloom in the rooms where barefoot comfort is best. 2004 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 Sept. j1 It includes ventilation of all storage and mechanical areas, as well as all wet rooms—kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room. b. A bathroom with water-resistant surfaces which has an unenclosed shower and a drain in the floor. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bathroom bathing-rooma1684 bathroom1685 private bath1771 bath1922 wet room1982 1982 Washington Post 28 Mar. (Mag.) 22/4 On another level are the wet room/showers and a large Jacuzzi-equipped hot tub. 1998 C. B. Titchener Reviewing Arts ix. 123 These apartment-like rooms are equipped with kitchens and ‘wetroom’ bathrooms that serve as handicapped-access showers with floors that drain just as a shower would. 2005 D. McWilliams Pope's Children viii. 98 Lifestyle sections start devoting entire sections to the joys of triple-headed showers and wet-rooms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1901 |
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