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, sudornoun
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
"sweat poured off his brow"
fret, stew, sweat, lather, swithernoun
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"
sweatnoun
condensation of moisture on a cold surface
"the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweatverb
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
sweat, sudate, perspireverb
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
"Exercise makes one sweat"
Wiktionary
sweatnoun
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.
sweatnoun
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.
sweatnoun
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.
sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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.]
Sweatverb
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
sweatverb
Over-patronize.
sweatverb
Worry, as in Don't sweat it.
sweatverb
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).
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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
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962:
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
It involves clipping the nerve that gives the message to the sweat glands and armpit.
It's not just blood and sweat that goes into manufacturing on an assembly line, it's critical thinking that automation can't replicate.
Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.
I have already found many types of body odour smell, the ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don't give a pass.
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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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