Sweat
Perspiration, also known as sweating, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body.
In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2–4 liters per hour or 10–14 liters per day (10–15 g/min·m2), but is less in children prior to puberty. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to evaporative cooling. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual’s muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.
Horses have armpits that sweat like those of primates such as humans. Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few (exceptions include humans and horses) produce large amounts of sweat in order to cool down.
Sudorific (adjective)
In a state of covered in sweat; sudoriferous, sweaty.
Sudorific (adjective)
That produces sweating. from early 17th c.
“diaphoretic”
Sudorific (noun)
A sweating.
Sweat (noun)
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.
Sweat (noun)
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
Sweat (noun)
The sweating sickness.
Sweat (noun)
Moisture issuing from any substance.
“the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack”
Sweat (noun)
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
Sweat (noun)
Hard work; toil.
Sweat (verb)
To emit sweat.
“perspire”
Sweat (verb)
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
“His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.”
Sweat (verb)
To work hard.
“slave|slog”
“I’ve been sweating over my essay all day.”
Sweat (verb)
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
“to sweat a spendthrift”
“to sweat labourers”
Sweat (verb)
To worry.
“fret|worry”
Sweat (verb)
To worry about (something). from 20th c.
Sweat (verb)
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
“to sweat blood”
Sweat (verb)
To emit moisture.
“The cheese will start sweating if you don’t refrigerate it.”
Sweat (verb)
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
Sweat (verb)
To stress out.
“Stop sweatin’ me!”
Sweat (verb)
To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
Sweat (verb)
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.
Sweat (noun)
moisture exuded through the pores of the skin, typically in profuse quantities as a reaction to heat, physical exertion, fever, or fear
“beads of sweat broke out on her brow”
Sweat (noun)
an instance or period of being covered with sweat
“we’d all worked up a sweat in spite of the cold”
“even thinking about him made me break out in a sweat”
Sweat (noun)
a state of flustered anxiety or distress
“I don’t believe he’d get into such a sweat about a girl”
Sweat (noun)
hard work; effort
“computer graphics take a lot of the sweat out of animation”
Sweat (noun)
a laborious task or undertaking
“helping to run the meeting was a bit of a sweat”
Sweat (noun)
another term for sweatsuit or sweatpants
Sweat (noun)
denoting loose casual garments made of thick, fleecy cotton
“sweat tops and bottoms”
Sweat (verb)
exude sweat
“he was sweating profusely”
Sweat (verb)
get rid of something from the body by exuding sweat
“a well-hydrated body sweats out waste products more efficiently”
Sweat (verb)
cause (a person or animal) to exude sweat by exercise or exertion
“cold as it was, the climb had sweated him”
Sweat (verb)
(of food or an object) ooze or exude beads of moisture on to its surface
“cheese stored at room temperature will quickly begin to sweat”
Sweat (verb)
(of a person) exert a great deal of strenuous effort
“I’ve sweated over this for six months”
Sweat (verb)
(of a person) be or remain in a state of extreme anxiety, typically for a prolonged period
“if we let them sweat for a week, they’ll be a lot more cooperative”
Sweat (verb)
worry about (something)
“he’s not going to have a lot of time to sweat the details”
Sweat (verb)
heat (chopped vegetables) slowly in a pan with a small amount of fat, so that they cook in their own juices
“sweat the celery and onions with olive oil and seasoning”
Sweat (verb)
(of chopped vegetables) be cooked slowly in a pan with a small amount of fat
“let the chopped onion sweat gently for five minutes”
Sweat (verb)
subject (metal) to surface melting, especially to fasten or join by solder without a soldering iron
“the tyre is sweated on to the wooden parts”