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Sweat Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Sweat?
[n] use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
[n] salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" [n] condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat" [n] agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [v] excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sweat: effort | elbow grease | exertion | fret | lather | perspiration | perspire | stew | sudate | sudor | swither | travail Related Terms | Find terms related to Sweat: See Also | agitation | application | condensate | condensation | detrition | difficulty | diligence | egest | eliminate | excrete | exercise | exercising | friction | H2O | labor | labour | least effort | least resistance | overexertion | overkill | pass | physical exercise | physical exertion | pull | rubbing | secretion | strain | straining | struggle | supererogation | sweat off | swelter | toil | trouble | water | workout Sweat In Webster's Dictionary \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs.
{Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS.
sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS.
sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti,
sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid
to sweat. [root]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
\Sweat\, v. t. 1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics. 2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. It made her not a drop for sweat. --Chaucer. With exercise she sweat ill humors out. --Dryden. 3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier. 4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.] {To sweat coin}, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by ``sweating'', or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. --R. Cobden. \Sweat\, n. [Cf. OE. swot, AS. sw[=a]t. See {Sweat}, v. i.] 1. (Physiol.) 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}. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. --Gen. iii. 19. 2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. --Shak. 3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. --Mortimer. 4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] --Holinshed. 5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise. {Sweat box} (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined. {Sweat glands} (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under {Sudoriferous}. |
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