Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
- intransitive verb To exude in droplets, as moisture from certain cheeses or sap from a tree.
- intransitive verb To collect moisture in small drops from the air, as a cold water pipe.
- intransitive verb To release moisture, as hay in the swath.
- intransitive verb To ferment, as tobacco during curing.
- intransitive verb Informal To work long and hard.
- intransitive verb Informal To fret or worry.
- intransitive verb To excrete (moisture) through a porous surface, such as the skin.
- intransitive verb To excrete (wastes) in perspiration.
- intransitive verb To have (moisture) condense in small drops on a surface.
- intransitive verb To cause to perspire, as by drugs, heat, or strenuous exercise.
- intransitive verb To make damp or wet with perspiration.
- intransitive verb To cause to work excessively; overwork.
- intransitive verb To overwork and underpay (employees).
- intransitive verb To interrogate (someone) under duress.
- intransitive verb To extract (information) from someone under duress.
- intransitive verb Metallurgy To join (metal parts) by interposing cold solder and then heating.
- intransitive verb To steam (vegetables or other food).
- intransitive verb Informal To fret or worry about.
- noun The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
- noun Condensation of moisture in the form of droplets on a surface.
- noun The process of sweating.
- noun A condition or instance of sweating.
- noun Strenuous labor or exertion.
- noun A run given to a horse as exercise before a race.
- noun Informal An anxious, fretful condition.
- noun Informal A sweatsuit.
- idiom (no sweat) Easily done or handled.
- idiom (no sweat) Used to acknowledge an expression of gratitude.
- idiom (sweat blood) To work diligently or strenuously.
- idiom (sweat blood) To worry intensely.
- idiom (sweat bullets) To sweat profusely.
- idiom (sweat bullets) To worry intensely.
- idiom (sweat of (one's) brow) Hard work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In tobacco manufacturing See
sweating - noun 10. Same as
chuck-luck orchucker-luck . - noun A spontaneous fermentation of the tobacco leaf corresponding to the aging of wines. Where the ordinary sweating process has not been fully carried through this is intentionally maintained. See
sweating , 5. - To excrete sensible moisture from the skin, or as if from the skin; perspire; especially, to perspire excessively.
- To exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap; also, to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation: as, a new haymow sweats; the clay of newly made bricks sweats; a pitcher of ice-water sweats.
- To exude as or in the manner of perspiration.
- To toil; labor; drudge.
- To labor under a burden as of punishment or extortion; suffer; pay a penalty.
- To work for starvation wages; also, to carry on work on the sweating or underpaying system.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Most of them are devoted participants who return every month, but for a few others the sweat is a new experience.
Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006
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Most of them are devoted participants who return every month, but for a few others the sweat is a new experience.
Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006
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CONNICK: I'm telling you, you know, they offered him the opportunity with Habitat you have to put in what they call sweat equity and help build your own house.
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The key though is that they use non-Writers Guild underpaid writers who actually tried to sue a number of the producers of shows like "The Bachelor" in -- about a year or so ago because they said they worked in what they called sweat shop/labor conditions.
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This fluid can therefore no longer find its way through them, though they still give passage to the humour which we call sweat; and especially so when the body is heated, and the mouths of the small vessels are dilated.
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He claimed that Sunanda Pushkar has four per cent shares in the company which he described as sweat equity and not free equity.
IBN Top Headlines 2010
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Declaring "sweat is my sanity," Palin also said some of her worst days on the campaign trail were those when McCain staffers did not schedule time for her to run.
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Aw man, the sweat is pouring down my back now, I'm having crazy hot flashes, and I'm so nervous that I can't even dial my momma on the phone.
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Aw man, the sweat is pouring down my back now, I'm having crazy hot flashes, and I'm so nervous that I can't even dial my momma on the phone.
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Mexican farmers had it okay, but now they work in sweat shops making our junk.
Matthew Yglesias » American Manufacturing is Very Productive 2010
oroboros commented on the word sweat
sWEaT
November 20, 2009
alejinha commented on the word sweat
sweat shop is a place where people has to work long hours, with poor working conditions and a low pay.
November 16, 2010
karpkatamala commented on the word sweat
His audience likes the no-frills urgency, the sense that he’s digging to the heart of impossibly complex conundrums, the feeling that they’re observing a bona fide philosopher sweat out the truth under pressure.
sweat out Slang To endure anxiously: sweat out an exam.
sweat out Slang To await (something) anxiously: sweat out one's final grades.
January 18, 2018