Sight vs Sweat - What's the difference?
sight | sweat |
(in the singular) The ability to see.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
* Bible, Acts i. 9
Something seen.
* 2005 , Lesley Brown (translator), :
* He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights ;
Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
* Bible, Exodus iii. 3
* Spenser
A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
* Shakespeare
a great deal, a lot; (frequently used to intensify a comparative).
* Gower
* 1913 ,
In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
(obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
* Shakespeare
Mental view; opinion; judgment.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 15
To register visually.
To get sight of (something).
* , chapter=4
, title= To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.
To take aim at.
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
In lang=en terms the difference between sight and sweat
is that sight is to take aim at while sweat is to emit moisture.As nouns the difference between sight and sweat
is that sight is (in the singular) the ability to see 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 verbs the difference between sight and sweat
is that sight is to register visually while sweat is to emit sweat.sight
English
Noun
- Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
- O loss of sight , of thee I most complain!
- to gain sight of land
- A cloud received him out of their sight .
- You really look a sight in that silly costume!
- Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight , why the bush is not burnt.
- They never saw a sight so fair.
- the sight of a quadrant
- their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
- a sight of money
- This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
- a wonder sight of flowers
- "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."
- "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!"
- Why cloud they not their sights ?
- In their sight it was harmless.
- (Wake)
- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Synonyms
* (ability to see) sense of sight, vision * (something seen) view * (aiming device) scope, peep sightDerived terms
* sight for sore eyes * far-sighted * in sight * insight * long-sighted * near-sighted * not a pretty sight * at sight * on sight * out of sight * * outsight * second sight * short-sighted * sight cheque * sight draft * sight for sore eyes * sight gag * sight rhyme * sight unseenVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}
Synonyms
* (visually register) see * (get sight of) espy, glimpse, spot * (take aim) aim at, take aim atDerived terms
* resightSee also
* see * visionStatistics
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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.
