What is "sweat"

Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid to sweat. [root]178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.]

1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
   --Shak.

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

   He 'd have the poets sweat.
   --Waller.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

Sweat \Sweat\, n. [Cf. OE. swot, AS. sw[=a]t. See Sweat, v. i.]

1. (Physiol.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.

   In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
   --Gen. iii. 19.

2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
   --Shak.

3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
   --Mortimer.

4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.]
   --Holinshed.

5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.

   Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined.

   Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous.

   sweat suit A suit comprising a top and trousers, having full arms and legs, used while performing physical exercises, esp. out-of-doors.

   Sweat equity The rights to a portion of ownership or profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of real estate.

Sweat \Sweat\, v. t.

1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

   It made her not a drop for sweat.
   --Chaucer.

   With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
   --Dryden.

3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.]

   To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.

   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.
   --R. Cobden.

Old English swætan "perspire," also "work hard," from Proto-Germanic *swaitjan "to sweat," from the source of sweat (n.). Compare Frisian swette, Dutch zweeten, Danish svede, German schwitzen. Meaning "to be worried, vexed" is recorded from c.1400. Transitive sense is from late 14c. Related: Sweated; sweating. Sweating sickness was a sudden, often-fatal fever, accompanied by intense sweating, that struck England 1485 and returned periodically through mid-16c., described in the original citation (a chronicle from 1502) as "a grete deth and hasty."

Old English swat "perspiration, moisture exuded from the skin," also "labor, that which causes sweat," from Proto-Germanic *swaitaz "sweat" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian swet, Old Norse sveiti, Danish sved "sweat," Swedish svett, Middle Dutch sweet, Dutch zweet, Old High German sweiz, German Schweiß), from PIE *sweid- (2) "to sweat" (cognates: Sanskrit svedah "sweat," Avestan xvaeda- "sweat," Greek hidros "sweat, perspiration," Latin sudor, Lettish swiedri, Welsh chwys "sweat").\n

\nA widespread set of Slavic words (Polish, Russian pot "sweat") is from Old Church Slavonic potu, related to peku "heat," cognate with Latin coquere.\n

\nThe Old English noun became Middle English swote, but later altered to the current form under the influence of the verb. Sweat of (one's) brow as a symbol of toil is from Gen. iii:19. Sweat equity is from 1968. Colloquial no sweat "no problem" attested from 1963.\n

Etymology 1 n. 1 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. 2 (context British slang military slang especially WWI English) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). 3 (context historical English) The sweating sickness. 4 Moisture issuing from any substance. 5 A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To emit sweat. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire. 3 (context intransitive informal English) To work hard. 4 (context transitive informal English) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression. 5 (context intransitive informal English) To worry. 6 (context transitive colloquial English) To worry about (something). (from 20th c.) 7 (context transitive English) To emit, in the manner of sweat. 8 (context intransitive English) To emit moisture. 9 (context intransitive plumbing English) To solder (a pipe joint) together. 10 (context transitive slang English) To stress out. 11 (context transitive intransitive English) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning. 12 (context transitive archaic English) 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.

1. n. salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" [syn: perspiration, sudor]

2. agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, lather, swither]

3. condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"

4. use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail]

v. excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: sudate, perspire]

Sweat ( Portuguese: Suor) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1934. It has yet to be translated into English.

Sweat is an Australian drama television series created by John Rapsey and produced by Barron Entertainment in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Perth. The show aired on Network Ten in 1996 for one season of 26 episodes and centred on students at an Australian school for the athletically gifted.

Scenes were shot in and around Perth including locations such as HBF Stadium, Arena Joondalup, the Town of Cambridge, the now defunct Perry Lakes Stadium and the Perth SpeedDome.

Sweat is the third studio album by American rapper Nelly. It was intended to be released on August 17, 2004, before being delayed and released on September 13, 2004, by Universal Records. Production was handled by several producers, including Jason "Jay E" Epperson, Midi Mafia, The Neptunes, Trife, Jazze Pha, Doe and The Alchemist. Released in conjunction with Suit, Nelly was intended to release a single album before conceptualizing and releasing two albums simultaneously, both which would contrast each other's themes. Nelly characterized Sweat as "more up-tempo" and "energetic" while describing Suit as more of "a grown-up and sexy vibe [...] it's more melodic".

Sweat is the eighteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1989 following a three-year gap between albums. James "J.T." Taylor and Khalis Bayyan had departed, and this album showed a refocused band.

Sweat is the fluid excreted by the sweat glands during perspiration.

Sweat or sweating may also refer to:

Sweat is the debut album by Belgian- Turkish R&B singer Hadise which was released in November 2005. The album was released in both Belgium and Turkey. Hadise released 4 singles from this album - Sweat, Milk Chocolate Girl, Ain't No Love Lost and Stir Me Up - before releasing the single "Bad Boy (Remix)" which was supposed to be included on a re-release of the album, which was eventually never released due to legal reasons.

"Sweat (A La La La La Long)" is a song by the Jamaican reggae fusion band Inner Circle. It was released in August 1993 as the lead single from their album, Bad to the Bone.

The song achieved a great success particularly in Europe, where it was a top ten hit in many countries, including Austria, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. It topped the charts of Switzerland and Germany respectively for six and twelve weeks. It was also a hit in Australia and New Zealand where it reached number 2 and number 1. It reached number 3 in the United Kingdom and number 16 in the United States. The song was also ranked number 94 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1993.

"Sweat" is the first single by Belgian- Turkish singer Hadise from her debut album Sweat.

This single is the first by Hadise since entering Idool 2003. The song features up and comping rapper Raw Jaws.

SWEAT stands for southwestern United States and East Antarctica, which theorizes that the Southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica. A hypothesis for a late Precambrian fit of western North America with the Australia- Antarctic shield region permits the extension of many features through Antarctica and into other parts of Gondwana, specifically, the Grenville orogen may extend around the coast of East Antarctica into India and Australia. The ophiolitic belt of the latter may extend into East Antarctica. The Wopmay orogen of northwest Canada may extend through eastern Australia into Antarctica and thence beneath the ice to connect with the Yavapai-Mazatzal orogens of the southwestern United States. Counterparts of the Precambrian-Paleozoic sedimentary rocks along the U.S. Cordilleran miogeocline may be present in the Transantarctic Mountains. Orogenic belt boundaries provide useful piercing points for Precambrian continental reconstructions. The model implies that Gondwana and Laurentia drifted away from each other on one margin and collided some 300 million years later on their opposite margins to form the Appalachians.

Sweat is the debut album recorded by an American band The System, released in the United States under Mirage- Atlantic label. It has been produced by its band members, namely David Frank, Mic Murphy. The album features two commercially successful songs " It's Passion" and " You Are in My System".

The album entered the Billboard 200 and R&B Albums charts in 1983.

Sweat is a short story by the American writer Zora Neale Hurston, first published in 1926. The story revolves around a washerwoman and her unemployed, insecure husband.

Robert E. Hemenway, the Chancellor of University of Kansas and the author of a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, praised Sweat as "a remarkable work, her best fiction of the period".

"Sweat" is a song recorded by American recording artist Ciara for her self-titled fifth album Ciara (2013), originally titled One Woman Army. Featuring guest vocals from rapper 2 Chainz, "Sweat" is Ciara's debut release under Epic Records after publicly asking to leave previous label Jive Records. The label failed to support Ciara creatively and financially on previous albums, Fantasy Ride (2009) and Basic Instinct (2010), contributing to poor performance of both albums. Ciara's contract with Epic Records reunited the singer with her mentor L.A. Reid, who is credited as originally signing the singer to his LaFace Records label during the beginning of her career in 2004, as well as having a hand in producing her debut album, Goodies (2004).

Initially touted as the lead single from Ciara, "Sweat" received mixed reviews from music critics, with some describing the song as a heavy club song, while others referred to the song as boring. "Sweat" was likened to previous urban singles " Goodies" (2004) and " Like a Boy" (2006). It was serviced to rhythmic radio stations on June 18, 2012; however, its planned digital release for June 19, 2012 was cancelled. Epic Records subsequently noted the song as a promotional single when it charted at number eighty-six on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was replaced by a ballad called " Sorry" as the lead single from Ciara but what when that underperformed too, both songs were scrapped from the album and replaced with an R&B midtempo song called " Body Party", subsequently touted as the album's new lead single.