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sweat - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
- intransitive verb To exude in droplets, as moisture from certain cheeses or sap from a tree.
- intransitive verb To collect moisture in small drops from the air, as a cold water pipe.
- intransitive verb To release moisture, as hay in the swath.
- intransitive verb To ferment, as tobacco during curing.
- intransitive verb Informal To work long and hard.
- intransitive verb Informal To fret or worry.
- intransitive verb To excrete (moisture) through a porous surface, such as the skin.
- intransitive verb To excrete (wastes) in perspiration.
- intransitive verb To have (moisture) condense in small drops on a surface.
- intransitive verb To cause to perspire, as by drugs, heat, or strenuous exercise.
- intransitive verb To make damp or wet with perspiration.
- intransitive verb To cause to work excessively; overwork.
- intransitive verb To overwork and underpay (employees).
- intransitive verb To interrogate (someone) under duress.
- intransitive verb To extract (information) from someone under duress.
- intransitive verb Metallurgy To join (metal parts) by interposing cold solder and then heating.
- intransitive verb To steam (vegetables or other food).
- intransitive verb Informal To fret or worry about.
- noun The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
- noun Condensation of moisture in the form of droplets on a surface.
- noun The process of sweating.
- noun A condition or instance of sweating.
- noun Strenuous labor or exertion.
- noun A run given to a horse as exercise before a race.
- noun Informal An anxious, fretful condition.
- noun Informal A sweatsuit.
- idiom (no sweat) Easily done or handled.
- idiom (no sweat) Used to acknowledge an expression of gratitude.
- idiom (sweat blood) To work diligently or strenuously.
- idiom (sweat blood) To worry intensely.
- idiom (sweat bullets) To sweat profusely.
- idiom (sweat bullets) To worry intensely.
- idiom (sweat of (one's) brow) Hard work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In tobacco manufacturing See
sweating - noun 10. Same as
chuck-luck orchucker-luck . - noun A spontaneous fermentation of the tobacco leaf corresponding to the aging of wines. Where the ordinary sweating process has not been fully carried through this is intentionally maintained. See
sweating , 5. - To excrete sensible moisture from the skin, or as if from the skin; perspire; especially, to perspire excessively.
- To exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap; also, to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation: as, a new haymow sweats; the clay of newly made bricks sweats; a pitcher of ice-water sweats.
- To exude as or in the manner of perspiration.
- To toil; labor; drudge.
- To labor under a burden as of punishment or extortion; suffer; pay a penalty.
- To work for starvation wages; also, to carry on work on the sweating or underpaying system.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan; see sweid- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), *sweyd-. Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), French sueur, Persian خوی (xway), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Latvian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, and Albanian djersë.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old English swætan, from the noun swāt. Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede.
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Examples
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Most of them are devoted participants who return every month, but for a few others the sweat is a new experience.
Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006
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Most of them are devoted participants who return every month, but for a few others the sweat is a new experience.
Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006
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CONNICK: I'm telling you, you know, they offered him the opportunity with Habitat you have to put in what they call sweat equity and help build your own house.
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The key though is that they use non-Writers Guild underpaid writers who actually tried to sue a number of the producers of shows like "The Bachelor" in -- about a year or so ago because they said they worked in what they called sweat shop/labor conditions.
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This fluid can therefore no longer find its way through them, though they still give passage to the humour which we call sweat; and especially so when the body is heated, and the mouths of the small vessels are dilated.
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He claimed that Sunanda Pushkar has four per cent shares in the company which he described as sweat equity and not free equity.
IBN Top Headlines 2010
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Declaring "sweat is my sanity," Palin also said some of her worst days on the campaign trail were those when McCain staffers did not schedule time for her to run.
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Aw man, the sweat is pouring down my back now, I'm having crazy hot flashes, and I'm so nervous that I can't even dial my momma on the phone.
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Aw man, the sweat is pouring down my back now, I'm having crazy hot flashes, and I'm so nervous that I can't even dial my momma on the phone.
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Mexican farmers had it okay, but now they work in sweat shops making our junk.
Matthew Yglesias » American Manufacturing is Very Productive 2010
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- beads of sweat
- befuddlement
- bewilderment
- bide
- blaze
- bleed
- bloom
- body odor
- boil
- bother
- botheration
- breathless impatience
- broil
- burden
- burn
- burn to
- burst
- bustle
- busy
- chafe
- chafing
- chaos
- chills of fear
- choke
- chyle
- cloud
- cold creeps
- cold shivers
- cold sweat
- colostrum
- combust
- commotion
- condense
- confusion
- cook
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- dirty work
- discharge
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- do double duty
- donkeywork
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- drip
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- drive
- drop
- drudge
- drudgery
- eagerness
- elucubrate
- embarrassment
- employment
- endeavor
- excitement
- exudate
- exudation
- exude
- fag
- fatigue
- fear and trembling
- feery-fary
- ferment
- fidgetiness
- fighter
- fighting man
- filter
- fit
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- flame up
- flap
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- fleece
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- hubbub
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- lachryma
- lactation
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- lymph
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- man-at-arms
- manual labor
- mark time
- matter
- maze
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- mucor
- mucus
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- mulct
- nervousness
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- oppress
- overdrive
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- overtax
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- palpitation
- pant
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- peccant humor
- percolate
- perplexity
- perspiration
- perspiration odor
- perspire
- perturbation
- phlegm
- pother
- pour it on
- pucker
- purulence
- pus
- quaking
- quiver of terror
- quivers
- radiate heat
- rat race
- resolve
- restiveness
- restlessness
- rheum
- roast
- rook
- ruffle
- saliva
- sanies
- scald
- scorch
- scramble
- scratch
- scut work
- seek
- seep
- seethe
- serous fluid
- serum
- serviceman
- sew
- shakes
- shimmer with heat
- shivers
- shuffle
- simmer
- sit up for
- slave
- slavery
- slog
- slogging
- smolder
- smother
- snot
- spadework
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- spasm
- spurt
- spurtle
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- stay up for
- steam
- stew
- stick
- stifle
- stir
- strain
- streams of sweat
- strive
- stroke
- stroke of work
- struggle
- study
- sudor
- sudoresis
- suffocate
- suppuration
- swaddy
- swat
- swatting
- sweat and stew
- sweat blood
- sweat it out
- sweat out
- sweating
- swelter
- swirl
- swivet
- swot
- swotting
- task
- tax
- tear
- teardrop
- tense readiness
- the whites
- thrill of fear
- tiresome work
- tizzy
- to-do
- toast
- toil
- transude
- travail
- treadmill
- trembles
- trepidation
- trepidity
- trickle
- tumult
- uneasiness
- unpatientness
- unquiet
- unquietness
- unsettlement
- upset
- urine
- vortex
- wait
- wait for
- wait impatiently
- wait on
- wait up for
- warrior
- watch
- watch and wait
- water
- weep
- whirl
- willies
- wilt
- work
- work hard
- work late
- work overtime
- works
- worry
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oroboros commented on the word sweat
sWEaT
November 20, 2009
alejinha commented on the word sweat
sweat shop is a place where people has to work long hours, with poor working conditions and a low pay.
November 16, 2010
karpkatamala commented on the word sweat
His audience likes the no-frills urgency, the sense that he’s digging to the heart of impossibly complex conundrums, the feeling that they’re observing a bona fide philosopher sweat out the truth under pressure.
sweat out Slang To endure anxiously: sweat out an exam.
sweat out Slang To await (something) anxiously: sweat out one's final grades.
January 18, 2018