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Sweating vs Respiration - What's the difference?

sweating | respiration |

As nouns the difference between sweating and respiration

is that sweating is the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals while respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

As a verb sweating

is .

As an adjective sweating

is of or relating to one who is.

sweating

English

(wikipedia 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

    • respiration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
  • An act of breathing; a breath.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 76:
    • Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
  • Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
  • The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

    • Derived terms

    * artificial respiration