Definitions for sweat
swɛtsweat

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. perspiration, sweat, sudornoun

   salty fluid secreted by sweat glands

   "sweat poured off his brow"

2. fret, stew, sweat, lather, swithernoun

   agitation resulting from active worry

   "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"

3. sweatnoun

   condensation of moisture on a cold surface

   "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"

4. 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"

5. sweat, sudate, perspireverb

   excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

   "Exercise makes one sweat"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

2. sweatnoun

   A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).

3. sweatnoun

   The sweating sickness.

4. sweatverb

   To emit sweat.

5. sweatverb

   To work hard.

6. sweatverb

   To worry.

7. sweatverb

   To worry about (something).

8. sweatverb

   To emit, in the manner of sweat.

   to sweat blood.

9. sweatverb

   To solder (a pipe joint) together.

10. sweatverb

    To stress out.

    Stop sweatin' me!

11. sweatverb

    To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.

12. Etymology: swat, from swait-, from swoyd-. Cognate with Danish sved, Swedish svett, German Schweiß, Dutch zweet, French sueur, Persian Latvian sviedri and Albanian djersë.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. SWEATnoun

   Etymology: sweat , Saxon; sweet, Dutch.

   1. The matter evacuated at the pores by heat or labour.

   Sweat is salt in taste; for that part of the nourishment which is fresh and sweet, turneth into blood and flesh; and the sweat is that part which is excerned. Francis Bacon.

   Some insensible effluvium, exhaling out of the stone, comes to be checked and condensed by the air on the superficies of it, as it happens to sweat on the skins of animals. Boyle.

   Soft on the flow’ry herb I found me laid
   In balmy sweat. John Milton.

   When Lucilius brandishes his pen,
   And flashes in the face of guilty men,
   A cold sweat stands in drops on ev’ry part,
   And rage succeeds to tears, revenge to smart. Dryden.

   Sweat is produced by changing the balance between the fluids and solids, in which health consists, so as that projectile motion of the fluids overcome the resistance of the solids. Arb.

   2. Labour; toil; drudgery.

   This painful labour of abridging was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching. 2 Mac. ii. 26.

   The field
   To labour calls us, now with sweat impos’d. John Milton.

   What from Johnson’s oil and sweat did flow,
   Or what more easy nature did bestow
   On William Shakespeare’s gentler muse, in thee full grown
   Their graces both appear. John Denham.

   3. Evaporation of moisture.

   Beans give in the mow; and therefore those that are to be kept are not to be thrashed ’till March, that they have had a thorough sweat in the mow. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

2. To Sweatverb

   To emit as sweat.

   Grease that’s sweaten
   From the murtherer’s gibbet, throw
   Into the flame. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   For him the rich Arabia sweats her gum. Dryden.

3. To Sweatverb

   preterite swet, sweated; particip. pass. sweaten.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To be moist on the body with heat or labour.

   Shall I say to you,
   Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
   Why sweat they under burdens? William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.

   Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing, and looking wildly, would needs speak with you. William Shakespeare.

   When he was brought again to the bar, to hear
   His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr’d
   With such an agony, he sweat extremely. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.

   About this time in autumn, there reigned in the city and other parts of the kingdom a disease then new; which, of the accidents and manner thereof they called the sweating sickness. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   A young tall squire
   Did from the camp at first before him go;
   At first he did, but scarce could follow strait,
   Sweating beneath a shield’s unruly weight. Abraham Cowley.

   2. To toil; to labour; to drudge.

   How the drudging goblin swet
   To earn his cream-bowl duly set;
   When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
   His shadowy flail hath thresh’d the corn. John Milton.

   Our author, not content to see
   That others write as carelessly as he;
   Though he pretends not to make things complete,
   Yet, to please you, he’d have the poets sweat. Edmund Waller.

   3. To emit moisture.

   Wainscots will sweat so that they will run with water. Francis Bacon.

   In cold evenings there will be a moisture or sweating upon the stool. John Mortimer.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sweat

   of Sweat

2. Sweatverb

   to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire

3. Sweatverb

   fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge

4. Sweatverb

   to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap

5. Sweatverb

   to cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics

6. Sweatverb

   to emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude

7. Sweatverb

   to unite by heating, after the application of soldier

8. 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

9. 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

10. Sweatverb

    the act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery

11. Sweatverb

    moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack

12. Sweatverb

    the sweating sickness

13. Sweatverb

    a short run by a race horse in exercise

14. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sweat

   Sweat is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sweat

   The fluid excreted by the SWEAT GLANDS. It consists of water containing sodium chloride, phosphate, urea, ammonia, and other waste products.

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sweatverb

   Over-patronize.

2. sweatverb

   Worry, as in Don't sweat it.

3. 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).

Matched Categories

1. • Agitation
   • Condensation
   • Excrete

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sweat' in Nouns Frequency: #2773

Anagrams for sweat »

1. tawse

2. waste

3. awest

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweat in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sweat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sweat in a Sentence

1. Stephanie Putri Fajar:

   We gave them( Haruka Nakagawa and Yukari Sasou) a platform to portray the active life of the youth who lose ions( sweat) through a lighthearted six-part friendship and adventure series on YouTube called' Onigiri The Series,'.

2. United Auto Workers:

   It's not just blood and sweat that goes into manufacturing on an assembly line, it's critical thinking that automation can't replicate.

3. David Marcus:

   We gave our whole hearts, blood, sweat and tears to what I will always call Libra, we were mission driven and in it for the right reasons( that remain as valid today as they were then). Here's to yet another chapter with a maybe more' acceptable' promoter driving the vision forward.

4. Endang Ahmad:

   I have already found many types of body odor smell, the ones who have sweat smell and armpit smell mixed we don't give a pass.

5. Joyce Mitchell:

   I know I had agreed to help them escape and run away with them, but I panicked and couldn't follow through with the rest of the plan. I really do love my husband and he's the reason I didn't meet Inmate Richard Matt and Inmate Sweat, human behavior is complex, and the motivations behind behavior can be from many reasons. And so for some, depending on what motivated the behavior or psychiatric conditions they have, it absolutely could be when they're out of that context, or something else happens in their life, that they realize the error of their ways.

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