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Definition: Sweats |
SweatsNoun1. Garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweats" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: SweatsSynonyms: sweat suit (n), sweatsuit (n), workout suit (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sweats |
| English words defined with "sweats": Colliquative ♦ Leucophlegmacy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweats": BLOCKER I ♦ Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Your heart sweats, your body shakes (ADDICTED TO LOVE; performing artist: Robert Palmer) You're heart sweats and teeth grind (ADDICTED TO LOVE; performing artist: Robert Palmer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Salsa Sweats (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The cough did not leave her, and she had night sweats. |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | HRT and ERT relieve hot flashes and night sweats. (references) | |
Night sweats are hot flashes that occur during your sleep. (references) | ||
Women may be awakened by night sweats or the need to go to the bathroom. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Labor sweats to create--and turns out devices to level not only mountains but also cities. |
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| "Sweats" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Sweats" is used about 51 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 33.33% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 51 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sweats": Night sweats. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sweats": night-sweats. | |
| 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 "sweats"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | å†'æ±— (Sweated, sweating). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schwitzte (perspired, sweated), schwitzt (perspires, transpires). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tréning (workout). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 땀난다. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatssway потеть (perspire, perspired, sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweats": sweatshirt, sweatshirts, sweatshop, sweatshops. (additional references) | |
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"Sweats" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saetas, Sawamatsu, Sceats, sheats, sneats, sowetan, swea, sweart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweats" (pronounced swe"ts) |
| 4 | -w e" t s | silhouettes. |
| 3 | -e" t s | begets, bets, brevets, brunettes, cabernets, cadets, cassettes, cigarettes, coronets, corvettes, debts, diskettes, duets, falconets, forgets, frets, gets, jets, lets, minarets, nets, pets, pipettes, pirouettes, quartets, regrets, resets, rosettes, roulettes, sets, statuettes, suffragettes, threats, upsets, vets, vignettes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tawses, wastes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: asset, easts, sates, seats, stews, swats, sweat, tasse, tawse, twaes, waste, wasts, wests. | |
-2 letters: ates, awes, east, eats, etas, sate, saws, seas, seat, seta, sets, sews, staw, stew, swat, tass, taws, teas, tews, twae, twas, waes, wast, wats, west, wets. | |
-3 letters: ass, ate, awe, eat, ess, eta, sae, sat, saw, sea, set, sew. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: swathes, wadsets, wasters. | |
+2 letters: fretsaws, newscast, seawants, stewards, stewpans, stowages, swankest, swatches, swathers, swatters, sweaters, thawless, twasomes, waisters, waitress, warstles, wartless, washiest, waspiest, wastages, wastrels, wastries, wattless, whatness, wrastles. | |
+3 letters: bedstraws, bestowals, coastwise, eastwards, enswathes, inswathes, leastways, leastwise, newscasts, newsstand, outswears, outwashes, outwastes, radwastes, sallowest, seatworks, seawaters, slantwise, softwares, somewhats, stemwares, sternways, strawiest, swampiest, swankiest, swartness, sweatiest, sweatshop, tawniness, unswathes, warstlers, wastelots, wasteries, wasteways, waterless, westwards, whatsises, wisterias. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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