Moistness vs Sweat - What's the difference?
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The property of being moist.
(obsolete) Moisture.
*, II.12:
*:The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.
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.
(British, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
(historical) The sweating sickness.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
Moisture issuing from any substance.
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
To emit sweat.
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
(informal) To work hard.
(informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
(informal) To worry.
(colloquial) To worry about (something).
* 2010 , Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times , 5 Dec 2010:
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
* Dryden
To emit moisture.
(plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
(slang) To stress out.
(intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
(archaic) 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.
* R. Cobden
Moistness is a related term of sweat.
As nouns the difference between moistness and sweat
is that moistness is the property of being moist while sweat is 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.As a verb sweat is
to emit sweat.moistness
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Noun
(-)sweat
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(wikipedia sweat)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
- (Holinshed)
- the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack
- (Mortimer)
Synonyms
* (fluid that exits the body through pores) perspiration * sudorDerived terms
* break a sweat * cold sweat * no sweat * old sweat * sweat gland * sweatshirt * sweatshop * sweatyEtymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede.Verb
(en verb)- His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
- I've been sweating over my essay all day.
- to sweat''' a spendthrift; to '''sweat labourers
- There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.
- to sweat blood
- With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
- The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
- Stop sweatin' me!
- 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.
