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wet room, n.
Brit. |ˈwɛt ruːm|, |ˈwɛt rʊm|, U.S. |ˈwɛt ˌrum|, |ˈwɛt ˌrʊm|
[‹ wet adj. + room n.1]
1. A room which houses a manufacturing or industrial process using water or liquid.
1901Chambers'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). 1946Sci. Monthly Mar. p. i (caption) ‘Wet room’ where ASTM C-9 Tests are run under specified humidity and temperature. 1988Daily 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. 2003Newsday (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.
1970Chron. 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. 1992St. 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. 2005J. 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.
1982Financial Times 18 Jan. 8/3 The board has outstanding resistance to weathering and humidity which makes it ideal for use..in wet rooms. 1990Toronto 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. 2004Edmonton (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.
1982Washington Post 28 Mar. (Mag. section) 22/4 On another level are the wet room/showers and a large Jacuzzi-equipped hot tub. 1998C. 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. 2005D. McWilliams Pope's Children viii. 98 Lifestyle sections start devoting entire sections to the joys of triple-headed showers and wet-rooms. |