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Sweat

Definition: Sweat

Sweat

Noun

1. Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow".

2. Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams".

3. Condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat".

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

Verb

1. Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sweat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sweat

DomainDefinition

Health

The fluid excreted by the sweat glands. It consists of water containing sodium chloride, phosphate, urea, ammonia, and other waste products. (references)

Literature

Sweat To sweat a client. To make him bleed; to fleece him.
To sweat coin. To subtract part of the silver or gold by friction, but not to such an amount as to render the coin useless as a legal tender. The French use suer in the same sense, as "Suer son argent," to sweat his money by usury. "Vous faites suer le bonhomme- tel est votre dire quand vous le pillez." (Harangue du Capitaine la Carbonnade.) (1615.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Medicine

Sweat; perspiration. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. To gather surface moisture in beads as a result of condensation. The roof of a mine is said to sweat when drops of water are formed upon it, by condensation of steam formed by the heating of the waste or goaf b. To exude nitroglycerin; said of dynamite in which nitroglycerinseparates from its adsorbent. (references)

Tips from 1870

Usage: Perspire, Sweat. While all mankind belongs to the animal kingdom, and no person can feel offended at being called an animal, yet society observes certain distinctions in speaking of men and of beasts. To sweat and to feed are expressions that apply to the latter; to perspire and to eat to the former. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Perspiration

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Perspiration (or sweat) is a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

In humans, sweating is a means of excreting nitrogenous waste products, but it is also, and more importantly, a means of temperature regulation. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual feels hot through exercise, more sweat is produced. Sweating is increased by nervousness and nausea and decreased by colds. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar results by panting, evaporating water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.

Sweat glands

Sweat glands are coiled tubular glands derived from the outer layer of skin but extending into the inner layer. They are distributed over almost the entire surface of the body in humans and many other species, but are lacking in some marine and fur-bearing species.

The secretion of sweat glands varies greatly. In humans, sweat is composed chiefly of water with various salts and organic compounds in solution. It contains minute amounts of fatty materials, urea, and other wastes. The sweat of other species normally differ in composition.

In some areas of the body the sweat glands are modified to produce wholly different secretions, however, including the wax of the outer ear. Some sweat glands, called apocrine glands, are modified into scent glands. Others are greatly enlarged and modified to produce milk. The ones used for temperature regulation are called eccrine glands.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Perspiration."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sweat

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SWEAT

EnglishSex Worker Education and Advocacy TaskforceLabor

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Sweat

Synonyms: effort (n), elbow grease (n), exertion (n), fret (n), lather (n), perspiration (n), stew (n), sudor (n), swither (n), travail (n), perspire (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sweat

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat.

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Excretion

Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology.

Exertion

Labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity.

Labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar

By the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.

Fatigue

Noun: fatigue; weariness; yawning, drowsiness; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea.

Fear

Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair.

Heat

Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.

Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sweat

English words defined with "sweat": anhidrosis, anhydrosis, apocrine glandbead, Bloody sweat, body wastecutDeath damp, diaphoresis, dripping, dropeccrine gland, edged, Empasm, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory product, exudate, exudefoaming, foamy, Forswat, fret, frothing, fumeheat rash, hidrosis, hidroticlather, lysozymemiliaria, muramidaseooze, ooze out, Osmidrosispearl, perspiration, Prickly heat, propanoic acid, propionic acidreek, reekingsteam bath, stew, sudation, sudor, Sudoral, Sudoriferous, Sudoriferous glands, Sudorous, Swate, Swatte, sweat duct, sweat suit, sweatband, sweatbox, Sweated, sweating, Sweating bath, Sweating iron, sweats, sweatsuit, swithertransude, Turkish bathvapor bath, vapour bathwatery, workout suit. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sweat": Apocrine Glandsbelding, butt-outDyspnea, ParoxysmalEccrine Glands, evaporative heat lossGROUND SWEATheat stress index of Belding and Hatch, HidradenitisMetabolic Clearance RateNeoplasms, Adnexal and Skin AppendagePARAFFIN-PLANT-SWEATER OPERATOR, predicted 4-hour sweat rate, production solderer, PULMONARY-FUNCTION TECHNICIAN, pulmonary-function technologisRelics, returned-goods repairer, RUBBER AND PLASTICS WORKERShimpai, Skeggs, SOLDERER, PRODUCTION LINE, SOLDERER-ASSEMBLER, swamp-ass, Sweat Gland Diseases, sweat rate, sweater operator, Sympathetic Fibers, Postganglionic, Syringomatraining suitwarm-up suit. (references)
Etymologies containing "sweat": Sudorous. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sweat

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's not a sport if you don't sweat. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg)

Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I am Jack's cold sweat. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

And what am I supposed to do, go back to taxi dancin', ten cents so some slob could sweat gin all over me (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

I'm gonna make you sweat one way and then the other (Black Belt Jones; writing credit: Alex Ross; Fred Weintraub)

Lyrics

While the DJ's makin' 'em sweat (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW)

Sweat me, Feel me (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Cause you know that I'm in the mood to sweat (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

Sweat baby sweat baby sex is a Texas drought (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Clever

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. (references; author: unknown)

Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results. (references; author: unknown)

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Sweat (2003)

Bitter Sweat (2003)

Sweat (2002)

Taste the Sweat! (1997)

I Will Make You Sweat Baby (1995)

Song Titles

Sweat (A La La La La Long) (performing artist: Inner Circle)

Make You Sweat (performing artist: Keith Sweat)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sweat

DomainTitle

Books

  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff About Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Sweat

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Photo Album: Sweat

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Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Sweat bees: Small wild bees such as this one visiting a dandelion are often attracted by salty sweat on hot days. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Medium shot Sweat Bee. Credit: John Craig.

Don't Sweat It Out : Prophylaxis Prevents Venereal Disease. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Sweat".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Tropics; equatorial; hot; humid; lush; steamy; sticky; stifling; sultry; sweat box; sweltering; torrid; tropic; vacation; relaxation; .Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep.
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Familiar Quotations: Sweat

AuthorQuotation

Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Kiichi Miyazawa

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

St. Jerome

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Sweat

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sweat

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He was very pale, though dripping with sweat.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Was it possible he had done these things? A cold sweat broke out upon his forehead as the foul memories condensed within his brain

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The dust coated their legs to the knee, their feet were pale and soft with sweat.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sweat

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Positive IRT tests must be confirmed by sweat and other tests. (references)

People with CF lose excessive amounts of salt when they sweat. (references)

In people with diabetes, the feet tend to sweat less than normal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Sweat

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

It's a fact of life that when something is given to someone, he values it far less than when he earns it through his own sweat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Sweat

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We are moving from an Industrial Age built on gears and sweat to an Information Age, demanding skills and learning and flexibility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sweat

"Sweat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.29% of the time. "Sweat" is used about 1,100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.29%9387,718
Lexical Verb (infinitive)9.9%10931,132
Lexical Verb (base form)4.36%4849,194
Noun (proper)0.36%4175,879
Unclassified Items0.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,100N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Sweat

The following table summarizes the usage of "sweat" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SweatLast name4,0003,137
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Sweat

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sweat".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ZiyaN/AArabic

Sweat

ZiaN/ABiblical

Sweat

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Sweat

Expressions using "sweat": bathed in sweat beads of sweat bloody sweat break out into a sweat by the sweat of one's brow cold sweat live on the sweat of the people no sweat old sweat ooze with sweat reeking with sweat sweat a little sweat and blood sweat away sweat bag sweat blood sweat box sweat duct sweat equity sweat gland Sweat Gland Diseases sweat glands sweat it out sweat joint sweat off sweat out sweat pants sweat rate sweat room sweat shirt sweat shop sweat sock sweat suit the sweat of one's brow tin sweat To sweat coin wet with sweat wipe sweat. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sweat": sweat-beaded, sweat-cloth, sweat-curled, sweat-dampened, sweat-darkened, sweat-dewed, sweat-drenched, sweat-duct, sweat-filled, sweat-filmed, sweat-free, sweat-grey, Sweat-lt-off, sweat-marks, sweat-pants, sweat-plastered, sweat-raising, sweat-shirt, sweat-shirts, sweat-shop, sweat-shops, sweat-soaked, sweat-sodden, sweat-soused, sweat-stained, sweat-streaked, sweat-suit, sweat-top, sweat-wet.

Ending with "sweat": anti-sweat, horse-sweat, sweet-sweat, worry-sweat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sweat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

keith sweat

1,635

athena cage featuring keith lyrics nobody sweat

40

sweat

692

keith lyrics nobody sweat

39

blood sweat tears

214

keith sweat twisted

34

sweat shop

208

foot sweat

32

keith sweat lyrics

195

keith sweat nobody

28

sweat pants

149

blood sweat gears

27

sweat shirt

94

sweat stain

26

kieth sweat

93

picture shop sweat

25

sweat band

93

sweet sweat

25

sweat lodge

91

nike shop sweat

24

sweat gland

75

sweat test

24

sweat suit

58

management sweat

21

keith lyrics sweat twisted

51

sweat factory

19

otis sweat

50

blood sweat and tears lyrics

19

bee sweat

50

warren sweat

19

night sweat

49

underarm sweat

18

sweat equity

46

sweat rash

17

cold sweat

45

sweat shorts

17

sweat shop union

44

excessive sweat

17

don t sweat the small stuff

42

lyrics shop sweat union

17
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Modern Translation: Sweat

Language Translations for "sweat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

djersë (exudation, perspiration, transpiration). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فقد شيئا من وزن جسمه, ‏كدح (drudge, drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat blood, swot, toil, travail, work hard), ‏نتح, ‏نز (ooze, seep, seepage, spew, weep), ‏نضح (asperse, aspersion, douche, exudation, exude, ooze, perfusion, pulverization, pulverize, spray, sprinkle, spurt, transpiration), ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), ‏حقق عملا من طريق الكدح, ‏تعفن (corruption, decay, decompose, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, moulder, mouldiness, mustiness, perish, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, rot), ‏تعرق (perspiring, sweating, transpiration), ‏تخمر (ferment, fermenting, sour, working), ‏عرق (perspiration, perspire, race, strain, transpire, vein), ‏أفرز (excrete, secrete), ‏أرهق نفسه, ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, transpiration, transpire, trickle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

запотяване (sweating), изпотяване (fog, perspiration, sweating), изобилна влага, пот (perspiration, transpiration), потя се (be dim, be steamy, perspire), припотяване, причинявам изпотяване, изпотявам се (exude, transpire), запотявам се, работя непосилно, запоявам (seal, solder), заварявам (weld), овлажнявам се, отделям влага, карам да се изпоти, тежък труд (slog, travail), трепя се (fag, moil, swink), експлоатирам жестоко. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

汗水, (perspiration). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zapotit se, zapocení, potit se (swelter, transpire), pot (lather, perspiration, transpiration), námaha (effort, exertion, labor, labour, pains, strain), dřina (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labor, labour, moil, slog, stinker, toil). (various references)

   

Danish

  

svede. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zweten (get wet), zweet (perspiration), transpireren. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ŝvito (perspiration), ŝviti. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

sveitta. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مشقت کشیدن , عرق کردن , عرق ریزی (Perspiration), عرق (Arrack, Distillate), خوی (Blood, Grain, Nature, Navigate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hikoilla (perspire). (various references)

   

French

  

transpirer, sueur, suer, transpiration (sweating). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

switte, swit (perspiration). (various references)

   

German

  

Schweiß (blood, lather, perspiration, welding), schwitzen (bleed, bleeding, brown in fat, ooze, perspiration, perspire, steam up, sweating, to sweat, transpire). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιδρώνω. ίδρωτας, ιδρώνω (perspire, swelter), ιδρώτασ (perspiration), ιδρόσ. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

djersë (perspiration). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יזע (perspiration), לחות (be confounded, be dismayed, be shattered, be terrified, damp, humidity, moisture, sap), ל"זיע (perspire), זע" (humidity, perspiration), "זע" (perspiring, sudation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

veríték (perspiration), izzadás (exudation, perspiration). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

peluh (perspiration), keringat (perspiration). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sudare (perspire), sudore (lather, perspiration, welding), traspirare (perspire, transpire). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

流汗 , 汗水 , 汗  (perspiration), (perspiration), スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

りゅうか" (cold, flu, influenza), あせみず, あせ (perspiration), スエット . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

. (various references)

   

Malay

  

keringat (perspiration), berkeringat. (various references)

   

Manx

  

taah (adhere, anchylosis, cement, coalesce, coalescence, concrete, conjugate; conjugation, conjunction, filling, set, solder, soldering, splice, weld, welding), ollish (exudation, exude, perspiration), gollish (exudation, perspire, sweating), cur magh tastid. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

sodó (perspiration), transpirashon (perspiration), transpirá. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatsway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

suar (perspire), suor (perspiration, water), transpirar (exude, perspire, transpire), transpiração (exudation, perspiration). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sudoare (perspiration, swelter, water), sudaţie (perspiration, sweating), trudi (drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, torture, weary), trudã (drudgery, elbow grease, grub, labor, labour, moil, suffering, sufferings, tiredness, toil, trouble, work), transpiraţie (exudation, perspiration, sweating), transpira (exude, filter, leak, melt, perspire, slip out, transpire), nãduşi (stifle, suffocate), nãduşealã, exploata (cultivate, exploit, get, hack, horse, milk, mine, operate, overwork, quarry, screw, win, work), condens, asuda (grind, reek, steam, swelter, toil, transpire), aburi (dim, exhale, fumigate, mist, smoke, steam). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эксплуатировать (exploit, operate, take advantage of), швицевание, вспотеть (perspire), выпотевать, отпотевать, запотевать (fog up, steam), запотевание, припаивать (solder), потеть пот, потеть (perspire, perspired, sweats), пот (elbow grease, perspiration), испарина (perspiration, transpiration). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

fallus (perspiration). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

znojiti se (perspire), znoj (perspiration). (various references)

   

Shona

  

karumanyemba (wild sweat pea). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sudor (perspiration, welding), sudar (exude, perspire), transpirar (perspire, transpire). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

sweti (perspiration). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svettas (perspire), svett (exudation, perspiration). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เหงื่อ, ทำให้เหงื่อออก, หยา"น้ำ, ความเหนื่อยยาก, ความวิตกกังวล (anxiety, suspense), จับตัวเป็นหย"น้ำ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terlemek (be hot, exude, ooze with sweat, perspire, swelter, transpire), ter (lather, perspiration, perspiratory, sudation, sudoriferous, transpiration). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

hyssyldamak (pant, puff), derlemek, der. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

спричинювати потіння, сиріти, вологість (clamminess, damp, dampness, humidity, moisture, weep, wet, wetness), піт (perspiration, water), пормочити потом, потіти (parboil, perspire), потіння (perspiration, sweating). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự l m đổ m" hôi công việc vất vả. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

chwysu (exude, perspire), chwys (perspiration). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sweat

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

2. ir. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

desudavi, sudatum, sudaveram, sudem, sudes, sudo, sudor, sudore, sudoris. (various references)

Old English450-1100

swat. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sweat

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 22, Verse 44
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai genomenoV en agwnia ektenesteron proshuceto egeneto de o idrwV autou wsei qromboi aimatoV katabainonteV epi thn ghn
Latin405VulgateEt factus est sudor eius sicut guttae sanguinis decurrentis in terram
Old English990West SaxonAnd hys swat wæs swylce blodes dropan on eorðan yrnende.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd his swot was maad as dropis of blood rennynge doun in to the erthe.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd he was in an agonye and prayed somwhat longer. And hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud tricklynge doune to the grounde.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Sweat

LanguageLuke Chapter 22, Verse 44
CebuanoUg sa nag-antus siya sa hilabihang kasakit, siya nag-ampo sa labi pa ka mainiton gayud; ug ang iyang singot nanibug-ok daw apol nga nagpangatagak sa yuta.
Chinese耶 穌 極 其 傷 痛 、 禱 告 更 懇 切 . 汗 如 大 血 點 、 滴 在 地 上 。
CroatianI bijaše znoj njegov kao kaplje krvi koje su padale na zemlju.
DanishOg da han var i Dødsangst, bad han heftigere; men hans Sved blev som Blodsdråber, der faldt ned på Jorden.
DutchEn in zwaren strijd zijnde, bad Hij te ernstiger. En zijn zweet werd gelijk grote droppelen bloeds, die op de aarde afliepen.
FinnishJa kun hän oli suuressa tuskassa, rukoili hän yhä hartaammin. Ja hänen hikensä oli niinkuin veripisarat, jotka putosivat maahan.
FrenchÉtant en agonie, il priait plus instamment, et sa sueur devint comme des grumeaux de sang, qui tombaient terre.
GermanUnd es kam, daß er mit dem Tode rang und betete heftiger. Es ward aber sein Schweiß wie Blutstropfen, die fielen auf die Erde.
Haitian CreoleKè Jezi te sere anpil, li t'ap lapriyè pi rèd. Swe t'ap koule sou li tonbe atè tankou gwo degout san.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka di dalam ketakutan yang amat sangat, makin bersungguh-sungguh hati Ia berdoa, sehingga peluh-Nya menjadi seperti darah menitik ke bumi.
MaoriA, i te oke o tona wairua, ka hohonu ake tana inoi: ko tona kakawa ka pena i te tepe toto e turuturu iho ana ki te whenua.
NorwegianOg han kom i dødsangst og bad enda heftigere, og hans sved blev som blodsdråper, som falt ned på jorden.
PortugueseE, posto em agonia, orava mais intensamente; e o seu suor tornou-se como grandes gotas de sangue, que caíam sobre o chão.   
RumanianA ajuns kntr`un chin ca de moarte, wi a knceput sq Se roage wi mai fierbinte; wi sudoarea I se fqcuse ca niwte picqturi mari de sknge, cari cqdeau pe pqmknt.
ShuarTura Jesus Imiá Wáitias pujak Nú kakaram Yúsan áujsamiayi. Tura ni searmarisha Numpá ántsan Nunká kitiawarmiayi.
SpanishY angustiado, oraba con mayor intensidad, de modo que su sudor era como grandes gotas de sangre que caían hasta la tierra.
SwahiliAkiwa katika uchungu mkubwa, alisali kwa bidii zaidi; na jasho likamtoka, kama matone ya damu, likatiririka mpaka chini.*fe* ic
SwedishMen han hade kommit i svår ångest och bad allt ivrigare, och hans svett blev såsom blodsdroppar, som föllo ned på jorden.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sweat

Derivations

Words beginning with "sweat": sweatband, sweatbands, sweatbox, sweatboxes, sweated, sweater, sweaterdress, sweaterdresses, sweaters, sweatier, sweatiest, sweatily, sweatiness, sweatinesses, sweating, sweatpants, sweats, sweatshirt, sweatshirts, sweatshop, sweatshops, sweaty. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sweat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Owzat, saeta, Sawfat, sceat, Sewa, Sewart, sewet, skeat, sleat, sneat, sowetan, swact, Swatf, swatt, swea, swead, swean, sweap, sweart, sweeth, swei, Sweif, swert, swet, swete, swote, weat, zweite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sweat"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sweat" (pronounced swe"t)
3-w e" tminuet, silhouette, wet, whet.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sweat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tawse, twaes, waste.

Words within the letters "a-e-s-t-w"

-1 letter: ates, awes, east, eats, etas, sate, seat, seta, staw, stew, swat, taws, teas, tews, twae, twas, waes, wast, wats, west, wets.

-2 letters: ate, awe, eat, eta, sae, sat, saw, sea, set, sew, tae, tas, taw, tea, tew, twa, wae, was, wat, wet.

-3 letters: ae, as, at, aw, es, et, ta, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: rawest, swathe, sweats, sweaty, tawers, tawsed, tawses, tweaks, wadset, wasted, waster, wastes, waters, wheats.

 

+2 letters: bawties, brawest, dawties, fretsaw, seawant, steward, stewpan, stowage, strawed, swathed, swather, swathes, swatted, swatter, sweated, sweater, tawneys, tawnies, tawpies, taxwise, thawers, towages, twasome, wadsets, wafters, waisted, waister, waiters, wallets, waltzes, waniest, wannest, wanters, wariest, warmest, warstle, wastage, wasters, wastery, wastrel, wastrie, watapes, watches, wattest, wattles, waviest, waxiest, weakest, wealths, wrastle, wreaths.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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