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Definition: Sweating |
SweatingAdjective1. Being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes". Noun1. The process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Seeping of water up through a road. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | To exude nitroglycerin; said of dynamite in which nitroglycerin seperates from its adsorbent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Condensation of atmospheric water on a cold surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The condensation of moisture and distillation products on the surface of a roast heap, forming a damp and sticky crust. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SWEATING. A mode of diminishing the gold coin, practiced chiefly by the Jews, who corrode it with aqua regia. Sweating was also a diversion practised by the bloods of the last century, who styled themselves Mohocks: these gentlemen lay in wait to surprise. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(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."
Synonyms: SweatingSynonyms: perspiring (adj), sweaty (adj), diaphoresis (n), hidrosis (n), perspiration (n), sudation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sweating |
| English words defined with "sweating": anxiety reaction ♦ Bloody sweat ♦ Chinese restaurant syndrome, comfort zone ♦ Desudation ♦ GAD, generalized anxiety disorder ♦ Horner's syndrome, Hummum ♦ lather ♦ miliary fever ♦ parathion poisoning, perspiring ♦ Resudation ♦ Sudamina, Sudatory, sweat off, Sweating house, Sweating room, sweating sickness, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry ♦ Tub fast ♦ withdrawal symptom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweating": carpal canal syndrome, Cubital Tunnel Syndrome ♦ Flajani's disease ♦ Graves disease, Graves's disease ♦ heat cramps, Heat Stroke, Hummums, Hypohidrosis ♦ Marching Watch, March's disease ♦ Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Neurocirculatory Asthenia ♦ Parry disease, Parry's disease, predicted 4-hour sweat rate ♦ skin resistance, startling effect, Stokes's disease ♦ Test Anxiety Scale ♦ wet sphere device. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He ran from here like a whipped dog! I'm sure you can't wait for him to get back to making the decisions so you can stop sweating through that silk blouse of yours (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) You're sweating. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) Sweating like a pig actually and yourself (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) It's 150 degrees out here, you're sweating like a dog (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen) | |
Lyrics | And you still be sweating me (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) Singers are sweating so pass them a wipe ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sweating Cans (1901) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Sweating Sickness;. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Minding the Gap" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Somebady taking the time to Mind the Gap. ahh the underground. I'm tellin you we was sweating like animals on it over the summer. yummy." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He finally reached the Blaru glade, at the end of forty minutes, sweating, soaked, breathless, torn, ferocious |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | And, in good time, here comes the sweating Lord |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad was sweating now. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms of late dumping include weakness, sweating, and dizziness. (references) | |
It may be accompanied by indigestion, nausea, weakness, and sweating. (references) | ||
A few months ago I started waking up in the middle of the night sweating. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sweating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.94% of the time. "Sweating" is used about 342 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.94% | 311 | 16,365 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 342 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sweating": 2) sweating ♦ 3) sweating out ♦ excessive sweating of the hands ♦ sweating bath ♦ sweating house ♦ sweating iron ♦ sweating room ♦ Sweating Sickness ♦ sweating system ♦ sweating tunnel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sweating": sweating-arguments, sweating-room. | |
Ending with "sweating": anti-sweating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sweating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shfrytëzim i ërforcuar (sweating system). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعرق (perspiring, sweat, transpiration). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тежък и зле платен, навлажняване (moistening), заваряване (patching, welding), запотяване (sweat), запойка, експлоататорски, потене (perspiration, transpiration), потен (perspiratory, sudoriferous, sweaty), изтезаване (rack), изпотяване (fog, perspiration, sweat), изпотен (sweaty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 冒汗 (Sweated, sweats). (various references) | |
Danish | svedning (bleeding, burning, fatting up), sved (diaphoresis, perspiration, sudation, sudor, suint, sweat), udsvedning (bleeding, exudation), transpiration (perspiration, sudation, transpiration), kondensdannelse, forbraending (burning, combustion, swealed), fermentering (anaerobic biodegredation by which an organic substance is acting as a nutrient as well as an oxidation agent, fermentation). (various references) | |
Dutch | zweetafgifte (perspiration, sudation), uitzweting (exudation), transpiratie (perspiration, sudation, transpiration), gisting (agitation, commotion, disturbance, excitement, flutter, turmoil), fermentatie (fermentation), exsudatie (exudate, exudation), condensaatvorming, beslaan (become steamy, comprise, dim, fill, fit out, garnish, get blurred, get covered with, get dim, occupy, shoe, take, take up, trim). (various references) | |
Finnish | tiivistyminen (compaction, compression, condensation, consolidation, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, settling, subsidence, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), käyttäminen (fermentation), hikoilu (perspiration, sweat), fermentointi (fermentation), fermentoiminen (fermentation). (various references) | |
French | transpiration (sweat). (various references) | |
German | schwitzend (perspiring, transpiring). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπύκνωση νερού, ζύμωση (fermentation, zymosis), εξίδρωση (bleeding, drip-feeding, exudation, fatting up, infusion, perfusion), εφίδρωση (transpiration). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיוזע (perspiring, sweaty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | izzadó (oozy, perspiring, sweaty). (various references) | |
Italian | sudorazione (perspiration). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 搾取 (exploitation, squeezing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくしゅ (exploitation, squeezing), はっかん (airplane taking off from a warship, perspiration, publish, startpublication). (various references) | |
Korean | 땀남. (various references) | |
Manx | tash (clammy, damp, dank, humid, moist, soft, soggy), ollishagh (sudorific, sweat-causing, sweaty), lane ollish (sweaty), gollish (exudation, perspire, sweat), cur magh ollish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatingsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suando, ressudação, fermentaçao (fermentation), exsudacao (exudation), exsudação (weeping), condensação (digest), aquecimento prolongado (swealed). (various references) | |
Romanian | sudaţie (perspiration, sweat), transpiraţie (exudation, perspiration, sweat). (various references) | |
Russian | усиленная эксплуатация (speed-up-system, sweating system). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iskorišćavanje radnika (sweating system). (various references) | |
Spanish | sudoroso (perspiring, sweaty), sudación, transpiración (perspiration), piel metálica (swealed), oxidación excesiva (swealed), fermentacion (fermentation), exudado del pan, exudación (exudation), explotación (development, exploitation, mining, operation, running, working). (various references) | |
Swedish | kondensbildning, avsvalning (cooling). (various references) | |
Turkish | sömürme (exploitation, exploiting, exploiture, rip off, sweating system), terleme (perspiration, perspiratory, sudation, sudatory, sweat, swelter, transpiration), karın tokluğuna çalıştırma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | запотівання (breath, weep, weeping), потіння (perspiration, sweat). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | que gạt mồ hôi cho ngựa (sweating-iron), chế độ bóc lột tàn tệ (speed-up system, sweating system). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sweating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seatings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweating" (pronounced swe"ting) |
| 5 | -w e" t i ng | wetting. |
| 4 | -e" t i ng | abetting, begetting, besetting, betting, Fetting, forgetting, fretting, getting, jetting, letting, netting, offsetting, petting, regretting, setting, upsetting, vetting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, formulating, fragmenting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: easting, eatings, ingates, ingesta, seating, stewing, tawnies, tawsing, teasing, twinges, waniest, wasting, westing. | |
-2 letters: ageist, agents, aweing, easing, eating, gainst, gawsie, giants, ingate, ingest, sating, sawing, sewing, signet, swinge, tawing, tenias, tewing, tineas, tinges, tisane, twains, twangs, twines, twinge, wigans, wisent. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agent, agist, angst, anise, antes, antis, awing, entia, etnas, gains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twangiest, waterings. | |
+2 letters: enswathing, stewarding, wadsetting. | |
+3 letters: outswearing, postweaning, springwater, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings. | |
+4 letters: granitewares, nightwalkers, springwaters, stonewalling, waterskiings, whitewashing, witenagemots. | |
+5 letters: bantamweights, metalworkings, streetwalking, waterfowlings, whitewashings, witenagemotes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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