"wettable" meaning in English

See wettable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more wettable [comparative], most wettable [superlative]
Etymology: wet + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wet|able}} wet + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} wettable (comparative more wettable, superlative most wettable)
  1. Capable of being wetted.
    Sense id: en-wettable-en-adj-8Mi92TZB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able

Download JSON data for wettable meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wet",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "wet + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wet + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wettable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wettable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wettable (comparative more wettable, superlative most wettable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -able",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 1, Henry Fountain, “A Slippery Slope Is the Secret Weapon of Some Pitcher Plants”, in New York Times",
          "text": "But in other species, including Nepenthes rafflesiana, the one studied by Dr. Federle in northern Borneo, the outer part of the lip is covered in tiny ridges that make it extremely wettable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being wetted."
      ],
      "id": "en-wettable-en-adj-8Mi92TZB",
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wettable"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wet",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "wet + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "wet + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wettable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wettable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wettable (comparative more wettable, superlative most wettable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -able",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 1, Henry Fountain, “A Slippery Slope Is the Secret Weapon of Some Pitcher Plants”, in New York Times",
          "text": "But in other species, including Nepenthes rafflesiana, the one studied by Dr. Federle in northern Borneo, the outer part of the lip is covered in tiny ridges that make it extremely wettable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Capable of being wetted."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wettable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.