Word.ws English Dictionary

wetdown

wetdown noun: the application of water to objects and surfaces on a film set, for example when shooting a rainy scene during dry weather.

Noun

wetdown (plural wetdowns)

  1. The application of water to objects and surfaces on a film set, for example when shooting a rainy scene during dry weather.
    • Water trucks needed for wetdowns are used often. Camera cranes and scissor lifts used to lift a camera and one or more operators high above the ground are also frequently requested.1990, Michael Horwin, Careers in Film and Video Production, page 70
    • That confidence will buy you a lot of good will when you ask them all for finishing funds because you blew your production budget on a Luma crane and a wetdown for Hollywood Boulevard.2016, Dan Mirvish, The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 38
  2. A traditional ceremony of spraying water over a new fire truck before it is placed into service.

Forms of wetdown

pluralwetdowns

Origin of wetdown

Deverbal from wet down.

Questions about wetdown

What does wetdown mean?
Wetdown means the application of water to objects and surfaces on a film set, for example when shooting a rainy scene during dry weather.
What part of speech is wetdown?
Wetdown is a noun.
What is the plural of wetdown?
The plural of wetdown is wetdowns.

Words near wetdown in the dictionary

  1. wetbacks
  2. wetbird
  3. wetbirds
  4. wetbrain
  5. wetbrains
  6. wetdown
  7. wetdowns
  8. wetdream
  9. wetdreams
  10. wetfast
  11. wetfastness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wetdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wetdown.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wetdown. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.