Sweat vs Perspirate - What's the difference?
sweat | perspirate |
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
(rare) Sweaty, moist with perspiration.
* 1967 , , Issues 26-29,
(dated) To perspire, to sweat.
* 1883 , , The complete poems of W.M. Thackeray ,
* 1886 , ,
As verbs the difference between sweat and perspirate
is that sweat is to emit sweat while perspirate is to perspire, to sweat.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.As an adjective perspirate is
sweaty, moist with perspiration.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.
Synonyms
* (emit sweat) perspire * (work hard) slave, slog, work hard * (to worry) fret, worryDerived terms
* sweat like a pig * sweater * (l) * unsweatAnagrams
* ----perspirate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Terse and perspirate , Murphy's wife takes a swipe at the pistol, but Michael moves out of her reach, and keeping it trained on the back of his father's skull, he repeats his question: Why don't you come back daddy?
Verb
- The sun bursts out in furious blaze, / I perspirate from head to heel ; / I'd like to hire a one-horse chaise — / How can I, without cash at Lille ?
Remarks,
- "So we stood Brown up agin a tree and poured hot ashes down his back till he begun to fit his cloze pretty quick, and then we laid him down in the tent and covered him up with everything we had in our humble cot. Everything worked well till he begun to perspirate , and then there was music, and don't you forget it. That kind of soaked the ashes, don't you see, and made a lye that would take the peelin' off a telegraph pole.