sweat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   salty fluid secreted by sweat glands

   Sweat poured off my brow.

2. 2
   noun

   condensation of moisture on a cold surface

   the cold glasses were streaked with sweat

3. 3
   verb

   excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

   Exercise makes one sweat

4. 4
   noun

   The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.

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

5. 5
   noun

   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

6. 6
   noun

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

   A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.