sweat

[Sweat]

Sweat is perspiration that makes you feel cooler when it evaporates off the surface of your skin or the giving off of this liquid. If you exercise hard, you will sweat.

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

Noun
use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

Noun
salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow"

Noun
condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"

Noun
agitation resulting from active worry; "don''t get in a stew"; "he''s in a sweat about exams"

Verb
excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"

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imp. & p. p.
of Sweat

v. i.
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

v. i.
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

v. i.
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

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

v. t.
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

v. t.
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

v. t.
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.

v. i.
Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

v. i.
The sweating sickness.

v. i.
A short run by a race horse in exercise.


Sweat

Sweat , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat ); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw'91tan, fr. sw'bet, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw'c7t, 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'c7da sweat, svid to sweat. 'fb178. 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.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

Sweat

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.
With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
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.

Sweat

Sweat , n. [Cf. OE. swot, AS. sw'bet. 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.
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.

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

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

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.

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Usage Examples

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

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Other Usage Examples

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Sweat saves blood.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

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