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Breathing vs Sweating - What's the difference?

breathing | sweating |

As verbs the difference between breathing and sweating

is that breathing is while sweating is .

As nouns the difference between breathing and sweating

is that breathing is the act of respiration; a single instance of this while sweating is the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

As an adjective sweating is

of or relating to one who is.

breathing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
  • A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
  • (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
  • * 1599 ,
  • DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
    CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
    LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
    DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
  • Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
  • the breathings of the Holy Spirit
  • Aspiration; secret prayer.
  • * Tillotson
  • earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

    sweating

    Noun

  • the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  • Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).

    Synonyms

    * perspiration

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to one who is