Sweat vs Perspires - What's the difference?
sweat | perspires |
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
As verbs the difference between sweat and perspires
is that sweat is to emit sweat while perspires is (perspire).As a noun 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.sweat
English
(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.