wettingn.

Brit.

/ˈwɛtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwɛdɪŋ/

Etymology: < wet v.

1. The action of making wet, or the fact of becoming wet; also (with a and plural), an instance of this:

a. Of persons, esp. by rain or falling into water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > action or process > of persons

wettingc1290

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 268 Þo Marie hadde i-blessed þat watur with hire honde, With-oute wetingue þare-ouer heo ȝeode.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10352 Schal he neuere take scathe, Ne haue wetynge [Petyt MS. haf wettenes] ne waþe.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1579 Pight vp with pilers..[for] Weghis into walke for wetyng of rayn.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 211 That's more to me then my wetting .

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xxiv. 149 It must be our wisedome..some whiles to abide a wetting; that, if need be, wee may endure a drenching also.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 392 So as one can hardly <step> without wetting to the skin.

1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 490 At the cost of a thorough wetting under a succession of heavy showers.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iii. 67 Many a wetting we got amongst the mountains.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xii. 250 The sea was like a sheet of glass; so that he had little fear of getting a wetting during his few hours' stay.

b. In general use. Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > action or process

wettinga1340

moistinga1398

wateringa1398

humectation1544

moistening1559

madefaction1583

irrigationa1618

aquation1623

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter i. 3 He sall be as a tre that..has ay wetynge of the watirs of grace.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Þat men þoru hem moun take weetynge of hevenly deew to her drie hertis.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 39 As a cat wolde ete fisshes withoute wetinge of his cles.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 523/2 Wetynge, madefaccio, madidacio.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 119^v Your stable must be buylt in a dry place, for wetting the Horses hoofe.

1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 285 The wettinge and late cominge downe of thier goods.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xxxvi. 59 The second thing that is to be done, after having remov'd Fig-Trees out of the Conservatory,..is, (to use the Phrase of Gard'ners) to give them a good Wetting in every Case; which is, one good substantial Watering.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Narcissus of Japan They must have a sound wetting, steeping the Pots in Water until you find it swims upon the Surface.

1789 T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 23 It can be of no service to the lowest parts of the meadow, unless as a wetting in Spring or Summer.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 255 The wetting of the slate was merely superficial.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 197 The only sensible effect is the wetting of the wires.

1886 Athenæum 20 Feb. 268/1 It is functionally protective against undue wetting by rain.

2. The action of moistening the throat with liquid; a small quantity of water or liquor used for this purpose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun]

drinkc888

draughtc1200

drinkingc1200

wetting1340

beveragec1390

receipta1393

bever1499

potation1509

quaff1579

watering1598

wipe1600

sorbition1623

imbibation1826

imbibition1844

bibition1853

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1033 Drink may him helpe, A litil wetinge of watur his wo wol amende.

1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 118/2 It is seldom a thimble-fu' that fa's to my share,..mony a time, no a weetin'.

1884 Punch 11 Oct. 180/1 'Twas like the free run of a Bar, And Politics wants lots o' wetting.

1906 Times 6 Mar. 9/6 Drinks and ‘wetting’, ruinous to health and morals, are part of the business plant.

3. The action of making wet or moist as part of a special process:

a. Of cloth. (Also in figurative contexts.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > making wet

wetting1463

1463–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 501/2 That every Cloth of Kersey..be parfitly wette, and after that wetyng redy to the sale,..connteigne in lengh xviii yerdes.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. vi. sig. Uiv It is peryshed .i. it is shrunk in the wetynge.

a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. E4 The cloath is not knowne till it come to the weeting.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes D 1 Three of his sonnes universally ridiculouslie reputed of... The fourth is shrunke in the wetting, or else the Print shoulde haue heard of him.

1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 189 He will not abide the touchstone. He shrinketh in the wetting.

1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. B5 Like No[r]therne Cloth shrunke in the wetting.

1631 R. Bolton Instruct. Comforting Afflicted Consciences (1635) iv. 16 A professour of the truest and heavenliest dye that holds out in the wetting and shrinkes not in the Day of adversitie.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2415/2 The stretch is taken out of it by repeated wettings and stretchings.

b. The steeping of barley in the process of malting; the quantity steeped at one time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > steeping grain

wetting1467

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > steeping grain > quantity for steeping

wetting1720

piece1832

1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 That the occupier..shall haue his wetyng of his barley in the fate of the seid Denyse during maltyng tyme,..the seid Denyse on wetyng and the seid occupier an other wetyng.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3790/4 Every Cistern..or other Vessel,..made use of for the Wetting or Steeping of Corn.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5864/2 The intire wetting..shall be charged with the Duty of 6d. per Bushel.

c. figurative. (Cf. wet v. 11.)

ΚΠ

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 54 He must have his double Jugg, before he weighs,..because wetting of his Sails, will make him run the faster.

d. Glass-making. (See quot. 1888 and wet v. 13.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > glass-making > [noun] > specific processes

fritting1816

fire polishing1829

pot-setting1839

wetting1888

mould-blowing1948

float process1959

1888 Daily News 14 Feb. 6/5 The bottle is..cut off from the blow pipe by means of a steel chisel and cold water. This is called ‘wetting’ or ‘wetting off’.

4. concrete. A liquid mixture employed to wet something else. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict., Wetting n. 3.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid mixture > used to wet something

wetting1728

1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 134 Make a Hole in the midst of the Flour, and pour all the wetting in.

5. Urination, usually resulting from incontinence or stress.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [noun] > accidental

accident1846

wetting1943

1943 Our Towns (Women's Group on Public Welfare) iii. 83 Some evacuated children were guilty of deliberate wetting and soiling.

1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children viii. 252 Soiling, wetting, and difficult behaviour.

Compounds

attributive, as wetting-board, wetting-machine, wetting-place, wetting-trough.

ΚΠ

1790 Act 31 Geo. III c. 7, §18 The Cistern, Uting-fat, or other Wetting-place or Utensil.

1800 Act 41 Geo. III c. 6 §3 Damaged Barley in the Cistern,..or other wetting Place.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 154 Wetting boards, the boards placed between the different reams in the press in the wetting department.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 155 Wetting machines, mechanical contrivances for wetting down paper, thus superseding hand wetting.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 155 Wetting trough, the receptacle for water used in wetting down paper.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wettingadj.

Brit.

/ˈwɛtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwɛdɪŋ/

Etymology: < wet v.

a. That makes wet or moist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > wetting

moistinga1382

moistening1580

watering1581

madefying1646

humectant1659

wetting1661

irrigating1669

irriguous1684

humectating1738

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [adjective] > of or relating to wetting

wetting1948

1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 163 The distinction betwixt a fluid Body and a wetting Liquor.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 249 The great variety of waterworks, grottes, and wetting sports.

1686 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 133 Here you have the Grotte of Cupid with the wetting-stools [1670 wettings stooles], vpon which, sitting down; a great Spout of Water comes full in your Face.

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 403 The wetting winds had thaw'd the Alpine snows.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 397 The plant..is regularly drenched with heavy wetting dews.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) vi. 120 There came on a thick, wetting drizzle.

1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 296 The chilly evenings and the heavy wetting mists in the morning.

1948 Nature 28 Feb. 313/2 A non-polar ‘wetting’ liquid such as carbon tetrachloride is floated on mercury in the reservoir beneath the U-tube.

1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Oct. 1047/2 A wetting solution coats a hard lens with a chemical that permits water to spread and form a surface that is less traumatic to eye tissues.

b. wetting agent n. a chemical that can be added to a liquid to reduce its surface tension and make it more effective at wetting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [noun] > property of being wettable > wetting agent

wetting agent1927

1927 Chem. Abstr. 21 414 The Na salts of the products may be used as wetting agents.

1950 Engineering 5 May 517/1 The success of Teepol as a wetting agent is due to its effectiveness in reducing the surface tension of water.

1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 39 Rinsing the film in ‘wetting agent’ (weak detergent) at the end of washing helps to prevent the accumulation of drops of water.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wetting
释义	wettingn. Brit. /ˈwɛtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛdɪŋ/ Etymology: < wet v. 1. The action of making wet, or the fact of becoming wet; also (with a and plural), an instance of this: a. Of persons, esp. by rain or falling into water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > action or process > of persons wettingc1290 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 268 Þo Marie hadde i-blessed þat watur with hire honde, With-oute wetingue þare-ouer heo ȝeode. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10352 Schal he neuere take scathe, Ne haue wetynge [Petyt MS. haf wettenes] ne waþe. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1579 Pight vp with pilers..[for] Weghis into walke for wetyng of rayn. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 211 That's more to me then my wetting . View more context for this quotation 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xxiv. 149 It must be our wisedome..some whiles to abide a wetting; that, if need be, wee may endure a drenching also. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 392 So as one can hardly <step> without wetting to the skin. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 490 At the cost of a thorough wetting under a succession of heavy showers. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iii. 67 Many a wetting we got amongst the mountains. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xii. 250 The sea was like a sheet of glass; so that he had little fear of getting a wetting during his few hours' stay. b. In general use. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > action or process wettinga1340 moistinga1398 wateringa1398 humectation1544 moistening1559 madefaction1583 irrigationa1618 aquation1623 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter i. 3 He sall be as a tre that..has ay wetynge of the watirs of grace. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Þat men þoru hem moun take weetynge of hevenly deew to her drie hertis. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 39 As a cat wolde ete fisshes withoute wetinge of his cles. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 523/2 Wetynge, madefaccio, madidacio. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 119^v Your stable must be buylt in a dry place, for wetting the Horses hoofe. 1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 285 The wettinge and late cominge downe of thier goods. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xxxvi. 59 The second thing that is to be done, after having remov'd Fig-Trees out of the Conservatory,..is, (to use the Phrase of Gard'ners) to give them a good Wetting in every Case; which is, one good substantial Watering. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Narcissus of Japan They must have a sound wetting, steeping the Pots in Water until you find it swims upon the Surface. 1789 T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 23 It can be of no service to the lowest parts of the meadow, unless as a wetting in Spring or Summer. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 255 The wetting of the slate was merely superficial. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 197 The only sensible effect is the wetting of the wires. 1886 Athenæum 20 Feb. 268/1 It is functionally protective against undue wetting by rain. 2. The action of moistening the throat with liquid; a small quantity of water or liquor used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] drinkc888 draughtc1200 drinkingc1200 wetting1340 beveragec1390 receipta1393 bever1499 potation1509 quaff1579 watering1598 wipe1600 sorbition1623 imbibation1826 imbibition1844 bibition1853 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1033 Drink may him helpe, A litil wetinge of watur his wo wol amende. 1835 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders I. 118/2 It is seldom a thimble-fu' that fa's to my share,..mony a time, no a weetin'. 1884 Punch 11 Oct. 180/1 'Twas like the free run of a Bar, And Politics wants lots o' wetting. 1906 Times 6 Mar. 9/6 Drinks and ‘wetting’, ruinous to health and morals, are part of the business plant. 3. The action of making wet or moist as part of a special process: a. Of cloth. (Also in figurative contexts.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > making wet wetting1463 1463–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 501/2 That every Cloth of Kersey..be parfitly wette, and after that wetyng redy to the sale,..connteigne in lengh xviii yerdes. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. vi. sig. Uiv It is peryshed .i. it is shrunk in the wetynge. a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. E4 The cloath is not knowne till it come to the weeting. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes D 1 Three of his sonnes universally ridiculouslie reputed of... The fourth is shrunke in the wetting, or else the Print shoulde haue heard of him. 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 189 He will not abide the touchstone. He shrinketh in the wetting. 1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. B5 Like No[r]therne Cloth shrunke in the wetting. 1631 R. Bolton Instruct. Comforting Afflicted Consciences (1635) iv. 16 A professour of the truest and heavenliest dye that holds out in the wetting and shrinkes not in the Day of adversitie. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2415/2 The stretch is taken out of it by repeated wettings and stretchings. b. The steeping of barley in the process of malting; the quantity steeped at one time. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > steeping grain wetting1467 the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > steeping grain > quantity for steeping wetting1720 piece1832 1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 That the occupier..shall haue his wetyng of his barley in the fate of the seid Denyse during maltyng tyme,..the seid Denyse on wetyng and the seid occupier an other wetyng. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3790/4 Every Cistern..or other Vessel,..made use of for the Wetting or Steeping of Corn. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5864/2 The intire wetting..shall be charged with the Duty of 6d. per Bushel. c. figurative. (Cf. wet v. 11.) ΚΠ 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 54 He must have his double Jugg, before he weighs,..because wetting of his Sails, will make him run the faster. d. Glass-making. (See quot. 1888 and wet v. 13.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > glass-making > [noun] > specific processes fritting1816 fire polishing1829 pot-setting1839 wetting1888 mould-blowing1948 float process1959 1888 Daily News 14 Feb. 6/5 The bottle is..cut off from the blow pipe by means of a steel chisel and cold water. This is called ‘wetting’ or ‘wetting off’. 4. concrete. A liquid mixture employed to wet something else. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict., Wetting n. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid mixture > used to wet something wetting1728 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 134 Make a Hole in the midst of the Flour, and pour all the wetting in. 5. Urination, usually resulting from incontinence or stress. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [noun] > accidental accident1846 wetting1943 1943 Our Towns (Women's Group on Public Welfare) iii. 83 Some evacuated children were guilty of deliberate wetting and soiling. 1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children viii. 252 Soiling, wetting, and difficult behaviour. Compounds attributive, as wetting-board, wetting-machine, wetting-place, wetting-trough. ΚΠ 1790 Act 31 Geo. III c. 7, §18 The Cistern, Uting-fat, or other Wetting-place or Utensil. 1800 Act 41 Geo. III c. 6 §3 Damaged Barley in the Cistern,..or other wetting Place. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 154 Wetting boards, the boards placed between the different reams in the press in the wetting department. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 155 Wetting machines, mechanical contrivances for wetting down paper, thus superseding hand wetting. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 155 Wetting trough, the receptacle for water used in wetting down paper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wettingadj. Brit. /ˈwɛtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɛdɪŋ/ Etymology: < wet v. a. That makes wet or moist. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > wetting moistinga1382 moistening1580 watering1581 madefying1646 humectant1659 wetting1661 irrigating1669 irriguous1684 humectating1738 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [adjective] > of or relating to wetting wetting1948 1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 163 The distinction betwixt a fluid Body and a wetting Liquor. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 249 The great variety of waterworks, grottes, and wetting sports. 1686 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 133 Here you have the Grotte of Cupid with the wetting-stools [1670 wettings stooles], vpon which, sitting down; a great Spout of Water comes full in your Face. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 403 The wetting winds had thaw'd the Alpine snows. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 397 The plant..is regularly drenched with heavy wetting dews. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) vi. 120 There came on a thick, wetting drizzle. 1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 296 The chilly evenings and the heavy wetting mists in the morning. 1948 Nature 28 Feb. 313/2 A non-polar ‘wetting’ liquid such as carbon tetrachloride is floated on mercury in the reservoir beneath the U-tube. 1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Oct. 1047/2 A wetting solution coats a hard lens with a chemical that permits water to spread and form a surface that is less traumatic to eye tissues. b. wetting agent n. a chemical that can be added to a liquid to reduce its surface tension and make it more effective at wetting. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical properties > [noun] > property of being wettable > wetting agent wetting agent1927 1927 Chem. Abstr. 21 414 The Na salts of the products may be used as wetting agents. 1950 Engineering 5 May 517/1 The success of Teepol as a wetting agent is due to its effectiveness in reducing the surface tension of water. 1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 39 Rinsing the film in ‘wetting agent’ (weak detergent) at the end of washing helps to prevent the accumulation of drops of water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1290adj.1661
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