Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of perspiring; profuse perspiration; also, the process of producing profuse perspiration by means of sudorifics, hot baths, etc.
- noun Same as
sweating system (which see, under sweating, p. a.). - noun The process of producing exudation or oozing of moisture by application of heat either dry or moist.
- noun Specifically, in tanning, a process of removing hair from hides by exposing them to moist air.
- Perspiring freely or profusely.
- Of or pertaining to the employment of persons, as to make clothes, at the lowest wages.
- noun Specifically, in the tobacco trade, the fermenting, in either the active or passive sense, of tobacco leaves, a process which follows that of curing or drying, and consists of further evaporation with chemical changes due, as shown by Loew, to the activity of two oxidizing enzymes.
- noun In the refining of paraffin from petroleum or bituminous shale, a process of fractional fusion in which the crude paraffin-scale in blocks is placed in a chamber heated by steam-pipes to a temperature a few degrees below the point at which the whole would melt, the more fusible part drained away, and the still solid portion afterward melted down at a higher temperature and decolorized by means of animal charcoal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
sweat , v. - a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.
- a house for sweating persons in sickness.
- a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
- (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
- (Med.) a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
production andevaporation of awatery fluid calledsweat that isexcreted by thesweat glands in the skin ofmammals . - verb Present participle of
sweat . - adjective of or relating to one who is sweating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
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Examples
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But now a different kind of sweating is taking place behind heavy dark wooden doors and under the bright lights of a downtown Los Angeles grand jury room.
Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat Jonathan Littman 2010
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But now a different kind of sweating is taking place behind heavy dark wooden doors and under the bright lights of a downtown Los Angeles grand jury room.
Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat Jonathan Littman 2010
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But now a different kind of sweating is taking place behind heavy dark wooden doors and under the bright lights of a downtown Los Angeles grand jury room.
Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat Jonathan Littman 2010
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We shared the waiting room with one other — a solitary figure who was sitting on the sofa, trying to collect herself and sweating from the heat.
2008 Election 2009
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The most common cause of such excessive sweating is overactivity of the nerves in the autonomic nervous system which control a host of glandular secretions – technically, the cholinergic nerves.
Doctor, doctor: Is 16 pints of milk a week too much? Dr Tom Smith 2010
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However, if the sweating is so bad that it is affecting your quality of life, and medication doesn't help, surgery to sever the appropriate nerves might be considered.
Doctor, doctor: Is 16 pints of milk a week too much? Dr Tom Smith 2010
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He had just finished dressing and was red-faced, breathless, and sweating from the efforts, when the pretty girl came in to take Addie back to her own room.
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Fine, I think, and sit down, still sweating from the half mile jog.
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We shared the waiting room with one other — a solitary figure who was sitting on the sofa, trying to collect herself and sweating from the heat.
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We shared the waiting room with one other — a solitary figure who was sitting on the sofa, trying to collect herself and sweating from the heat.
bilby commented on the word sweating
"A mode of diminishing the gold coin, practised chiefly by Jews, who corrode it with aqua regia. Sweating was also a diversion practised by the bloods of the last century, who styled themselves Mohocks: these gentlemen lay in wait to surprise some person late at night, when surrounding him, they with their swords pricked him in the posteriors, which obliged him to be constantly turning around; this they continued until they thought him sufficiently sweated."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 11, 2008
reesetee commented on the word sweating
I think I can believe this was not listed.
September 11, 2008