What does sweat mean?
Definitions for sweat
swɛtsweat
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word sweat.
Princeton's WordNet
perspiration, sweat, sudor(noun)
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
"sweat poured off his brow"
fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither(noun)
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
sweat(noun)
condensation of moisture on a cold surface
"the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat(verb)
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
sweat, sudate, perspire(verb)
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
"Exercise makes one sweat"
Wiktionary
sweat(Noun)
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Noun)
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Noun)
The sweating sickness.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To emit sweat.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To work hard.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To worry.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To worry about (something).
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
to sweat blood.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To stress out.
Stop sweatin' me!
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
sweat(Verb)
To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.
Webster Dictionary
Sweat
of Sweat
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to unite by heating, after the application of soldier
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
to get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
the fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
the act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
the sweating sickness
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Sweat(verb)
a short run by a race horse in exercise
Etymology: [OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. , , sweat, to sweat, Skr. svda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]
Freebase
Sweat
Sweat is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sweat
swet, n. the moisture from the skin, the state of one who sweats, diaphoresis: labour: drudgery.—v.i. to give out sweat or moisture: to toil, drudge for poor wages: to suffer penalty, smart.—v.t. to give out, as sweat: to cause to sweat: to squeeze money or extortionate interest from, to compel to hard work for mean wages: to wear away or pare down by friction or other means, as coins: to scrape the sweat from a horse.—ns. Sweat′er, one who sweats, or that which causes sweating, a diaphoretic: a heavy kind of jersey used by persons in training for athletic contests, to reduce their weight: one who sweats coins: a London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point; Sweat′iness; Sweat′ing-bath, a bath to promote perspiration; Sweat′ing-house, -room, a house, room, for sweating persons: a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices; Sweat′ing-sick′ness, an extremely fatal epidemic disorder which ravaged Europe, and esp. England, in the 15th and 16th centuries—a violent inflammatory fever, with a fetid perspiration over the whole body; Sweat′ing-sys′tem, the practice of working poor people at starvation wages, esp. in making up clothes in their own houses.—adj. Sweat′y, wet with sweat: consisting of sweat: laborious. [A.S. swát, sweat, swǽtan, to sweat; Dut. zweet; Low Ger. sweet, Ger. schweiss.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Sweat
The fluid excreted by the SWEAT GLANDS. It consists of water containing sodium chloride, phosphate, urea, ammonia, and other waste products.
Rap Dictionary
sweat(verb)
Over-patronize.
sweat(verb)
Worry, as in Don't sweat it.
sweat(verb)
Harass or scrutinize. Kinda like when a dog rapes a caterpillar... or two narcs in the area that's sweatin' me -- Digital Underground (Sex packets).
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sweat' in Nouns Frequency: #2773
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Tawse
Wetas
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sweat in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sweat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of sweat in a Sentence
Sweat felt that Matt was slowing him down, now we know that Matt had blisters on his feet because we found bloody socks. So that's possibly a reason Matt was slowing him down. And also Sweat was a younger man, and he was fit.
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.
Ben always said the nights had been the worst for him, he would sweat and when he laid down a certain way, it was particularly hard for him to breathe.
Rubio -- I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. He's drinking water, water, water. I never saw anything like this with him with the water.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
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- عرقArabic
- гӏетӏAvaric
- тирBashkir
- потBelarusian
- потBulgarian
- ঘামBengali
- suar, suorCatalan, Valencian
- sudoriCorsican
- potCzech
- chwys, chwysuWelsh
- svedDanish
- Schweiß, schwitzen, SchwitzeGerman
- ιδρώτας, ιδρώνωGreek
- ŝvitiEsperanto
- sudar, sudorSpanish
- izerdiBasque
- عرق, خویPersian
- hiki, raataa, hikoillaFinnish
- transpiration, suer, troupier, sueur, troufion, transpirerFrench
- switWestern Frisian
- suor, suarGalician
- ty'aiGuaraní
- זיעה, הזיעHebrew
- पसीना, पसीना आनाHindi
- izzadság, veríték, robotol, izgul, izzadHungarian
- քրտինք, քրտնելArmenian
- keringatIndonesian
- sudoro, sudorifarIdo
- svitna, áhyggjur, hafa, svitiIcelandic
- sudare, sudoreItalian
- 汗, 汗をかくJapanese
- ოფლიGeorgian
- 땀Korean
- ئارهق, ئارهقه, xuhKurdish
- sudorLatin
- SchweessLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- prãkaitas, prakaitúotiLithuanian
- sviedriLatvian
- пот, поти, испоти, запоти, препотиMacedonian
- peluhMalay
- svetteNorwegian
- transpiratievocht, zich zorgen maken, zweet, zweten, zwoegenDutch
- sveitteNorwegian Nynorsk
- svetteNorwegian
- susor, susarOccitan
- pot, pocić sięPolish
- suor, transpirar, suarPortuguese
- hunp'iyQuechua
- transpirație, asuda, sudoare, transpiraRomanian
- пот, потеть, вспотеть, мантулить, пахать, вкалывать, ишачитьRussian
- स्वेदSanskrit
- sudore, suori, sori, sudori, suore, suderareSardinian
- pot, знојити, znojiti, зно̑ј, znȏj, потSerbo-Croatian
- potSlovak
- znójSlovene
- djersij, djersëAlbanian
- svettas, svettSwedish
- wasiwasi, ungana, jashoSwahili
- స్వేదం, చెమటTelugu
- เหงื่อ, น้ำเหงื่อThai
- ter dökmek, soğuk ter dökmek, ter, terlemekTurkish
- пітUkrainian
- پسینہUrdu
- mồ hôiVietnamese
- שוויצן, שווייסYiddish
- 流汗Chinese
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