Main Difference
The main difference between Sweet and Sweat is that the Sweet is a basic taste and substance secreted by sweat gland.
Sweet
Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugars. Sweet tastes are regarded as a pleasurable experience, except perhaps in excess.
Fructose is sweeter than glucose and sucrose. This has made possible the production of sugar syrups with the sweetness and certain other properties of sucrose starting from starch.
In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin and aspartame. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.
The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness receptor and a sweet substance.
Studies indicate that responsiveness to sugars and sweetness has very ancient evolutionary beginnings, being manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria such as E. coli. Newborn human infants also demonstrate preferences for high sugar concentrations and prefer solutions that are sweeter than lactose, the sugar found in breast milk. Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed our primate ancestors to seek out sweet-tasting (and energy-dense) foods and avoid bitter-tasting foods. Even amongst leaf-eating primates, there is a tendency to prefer immature leaves, which tend to be higher in protein and lower in fibre and poisons than mature leaves. The ‘sweet tooth’ thus has an ancient evolutionary heritage, and while food processing has changed consumption patterns, human physiology remains largely unchanged.
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.
Sweet (adjective)
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
“a sweet apple”
Sweet (adjective)
Having a taste of sugar.
Sweet (adjective)
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
Sweet (adjective)
Retaining a portion of sugar.
“Sweet wines are better dessert wines.”
Sweet (adjective)
Not having a salty taste.
“sweet butter”
Sweet (adjective)
Having a pleasant smell.
“a sweet scent”
Sweet (adjective)
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
“sweet milk”
Sweet (adjective)
Having a pleasant sound.
“a sweet tune”
Sweet (adjective)
Having a pleasing disposition.
“a sweet child”
Sweet (adjective)
Having a helpful disposition.
“It was sweet of him to help out.”
Sweet (adjective)
Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
“sweet soil”
“sweet crude oil”
Sweet (adjective)
Very pleasing; agreeable.
“The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.”
Sweet (adjective)
}} Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
“The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.”
Sweet (adjective)
Fresh; not salt or brackish.
“sweet water”
Sweet (adjective)
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
“a sweet face; a sweet colour or complexion”
Sweet (adverb)
In a sweet manner.
Sweet (noun)
The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Sweet (noun)
A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
Sweet (noun)
A food eaten for dessert.
“Can we see the sweet menu, please?”
Sweet (noun)
sweetheart; darling.
Sweet (noun)
That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
Sweet (noun)
Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
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.
Sweet (adjective)
having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar or honey; not salt, sour, or bitter
“a cup of hot sweet tea”
Sweet (adjective)
(of air, water, or food) fresh, pure, and untainted
“lungfuls of the clean, sweet air”
Sweet (adjective)
smelling pleasant like flowers or perfume; fragrant
“a bunch of sweet-scented flowers”
Sweet (adjective)
pleasing in general; delightful
“it was the sweet life he had always craved”
Sweet (adjective)
highly satisfying or gratifying
“some sweet, short-lived revenge”
Sweet (adjective)
used in expressions of assent or approval
“Yeah, I’d like to come to the party. Sweet!”
Sweet (adjective)
working, moving, or done smoothly or easily
“the sweet handling of this motorcycle”
Sweet (adjective)
(of sound) melodious or harmonious
“the sweet notes of the flute”
Sweet (adjective)
denoting music, especially jazz, played at a steady tempo without improvisation.
Sweet (adjective)
(of a person or action) pleasant and kind or thoughtful
“it was sweet of you to come”
“a very sweet nurse came along”
Sweet (adjective)
charming and endearing
“a sweet little cat”
Sweet (adjective)
infatuated or in love with
“she seemed quite sweet on him”
Sweet (adjective)
dear; beloved
“my sweet love”
Sweet (adjective)
used as a respectful form of address
“go to thy rest, sweet sir”
Sweet (adjective)
used for emphasis in various phrases and exclamations
“What had happened? Sweet nothing”
Sweet (noun)
a small shaped piece of confectionery made with sugar
“a bag of sweets”
Sweet (noun)
a sweet dish forming a course of a meal; a pudding or dessert.
Sweet (noun)
used as an affectionate form of address
“hello, my sweet”
Sweet (noun)
the sweet part or element of something
“you have had the bitter, now comes the sweet”
Sweet (noun)
the pleasures or delights found in something
“the sweets of office”
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”