sweat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or…

   Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.

2. 2

   The state of one who is sweating

   The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.

   • Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
3. 3

   Hard work

   Hard work; toil.

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   1. 4

      Moisture issuing from any substance.

      • The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat, The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd, Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad
      • the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
   2. 5

      A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.

      • There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training.
      • A sweat was, accordingly, a training run for a racehorse: a notice in The London Gazette in 1705 advertises a race for hunters that have not 'been kept in sweats above 12 weeks before the day of Running'.
   3. 6

      The sweating sickness.

      • When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.
      • […]who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge
   4. 7

      A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).

   5. 8

      An extremely or excessively competitive player.

      • Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.
   6. 9

      To emit sweat.

   7. 10

      To cause to excrete moisture through skin.

   8. 11

      To work hard.

      • I've been sweating over my essay all day.
   9. 12

      To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.

      • to sweat a spendthrift
      • to sweat labourers
      • "I've predicted it will last 32 years. The last overhaul we will do on it is at 24 years, but we tend to sweat the asset at Network Rail and try and save a bit of money, so I've estimated 32 years."
   10. 13

       To worry.

   11. 14

       To worry about (something).

       • Don't sweat it!
       • to sweat the small stuff
       • There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
   12. 15

       To emit, in the manner of sweat.

       • to sweat blood
       • With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
       • I was sipping a third, but I had no kind of buzz on; apparently I had sweat the beer out as rapidly as I drank it.
   13. 16

       To emit moisture.

       • The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
   14. 17

       To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.

       • Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
   15. 18

       To solder (a pipe joint) together.

   16. 19

       To stress out, to put under pressure.

       • Stop sweatin' me!
       • But I'ma smoke 'em now and not next time / Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me
       • Over the next few days the cops half-ass questioned a couple of people, including me and Pimp, but they wasn't able to put nothing on us. They sweated Vyreen's husband pretty hard for a while, though.
   17. 20

       To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture…

       To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

       • Sweating is a generally a quiet operation; if the food is whispering, or worse, hissing, the moisture is probably evaporating too rapidly
       • Sweat the carrots, onion, celery, leeks, and cabbage in the butter until translucent not allowing them to color in any way.
       • Reduce heat to low, cover pan, and gently sweat the celery for ten minutes, taking care not to brown it
   18. 21

       To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the…

       To remove a portion of (a 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.
   19. 22

       To suffer a penalty

       To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.

   20. 23

       To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.

   21. 24

       A surname.

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