Sweat

[swet] or [swɛt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) condensation of moisture on a cold surface; 'the cold glasses were streaked with sweat'.

(verb.) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; 'Exercise makes one sweat'.

卡莱尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(imp. & p. p.) of Sweat

(v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

(v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

(v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

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

(v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

(v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

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

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.

(v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

(v. i.) The sweating sickness.

(v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.

錄入:泰茜

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Perspiration, exudation, excretion, sweating.

v. n. [1]. Perspire.[2]. Toll, labor, drudge.

v. a. [1]. Exude.[2]. Put into a perspiration.

埃文編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Perspiration, exudation, sweating, excretion,[See AFFIRM_and_CURSE]

錄入:莱斯特

解釋/意思:

n. the moisture from the skin the state of one who sweats diaphoresis: labour: drudgery.—v.i. to give out sweat or moisture: to toil drudge for poor wages: to suffer penalty smart.—v.t. to give out as sweat: to cause to sweat: to squeeze money or extortionate interest from to compel to hard work for mean wages: to wear away or pare down by friction or other means as coins: to scrape the sweat from a horse.—ns. Sweat′er one who sweats or that which causes sweating a diaphoretic: a heavy kind of jersey used by persons in training for athletic contests to reduce their weight: one who sweats coins: a London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point; Sweat′iness; Sweat′ing-bath a bath to promote perspiration; Sweat′ing-house -room a house room for sweating persons: a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices; Sweat′ing-sick′ness an extremely fatal epidemic disorder which ravaged Europe and esp. England in the 15th and 16th centuries—a violent inflammatory fever with a fetid perspiration over the whole body; Sweat′ing-sys′tem the practice of working poor people at starvation wages esp. in making up clothes in their own houses.—adj. Sweat′y wet with sweat: consisting of sweat: laborious.

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