wet suit
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3.3
- noun
- /wɛt suːt/
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traje de neopreno
- I zip on a wet suit, drop myself overboard, and sink down to the bottom.
- wear a wet suit
- diver's wet suit
- don a wet suit
But you can't compete in the club swims wearing a wet suit.
- But you can't compete in the club swims wearing a wet suit.
- And throughout the wet suit were all of these plastic veins running through them.
- And then we had one, we had one wet suit that was a little bit too big for Shepherd and a little bit too small for for Locke's friend.
- So you cannot just dive with a wet suit.
- I mean, they used all the vac suits were like this kind of spongy sort of, you know, what you would wear in the ocean and a dry suit, dry suit or wet suit.
- And then we've got the wet suit, which I will put on right.
- I forgot my, my wet suit is a little tight.
- They make these as wet suits for sharks too, because the sharks can't detect your field.
- And even if we don't see any, I like to have my swimsuit on, get my wet suit on and just be ready.
- Most of them, you know, take pride in the fact that they don't use wet suits, do it year round and have this.
Examples
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The divers donned their wet suits and prepared to jump into the chilly ocean.
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Why are you wearing a wet suit?
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Get in your wet suit.
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Glad to see you got your wet suit on.
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I'll get my wet suit on.
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And yeah, we got the wet suits on since it is pretty darn chilly up here.
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Thank goodness we hired wet suits because it meant like we didn't feel the cold at at all.
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They both put wet suits on, gloves on, swimming caps on.
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Teams of divers in heavy wet suits were already conducting a coordinated search for the aircraft's black box.
Fiction book (1996) -
She zipped up her wet suit before heading out to catch some waves.
How Warm
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Surface Forms
Morphology
wet + suit
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'wet' (not dry / associated with water) and 'suit' (an item of clothing): a suit intended for use in wet conditions or that becomes wet when worn in water. This compound follows straightforward descriptive composition and is cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Wet suit: The noun wet suit comes from the fact that the suit is actually wet inside: a thin layer of water is trapped and warmed by your body, so you stay warm in cold water. That's why the term means 'a tight suit that helps you stay warm while swimming or diving in cold water'.