sweatとは

語源 1

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from 古期英語 swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן‎ (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی‎ (xway), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Latvian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, and Albanian djersë.

名詞

sweat (usually uncountable, 複数形 sweats)

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. (Britain, slang, military スラング, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old または experienced).
3. (historical) The sweating sickness.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:

     When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it.

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4. Moisture issuing from any substance.

   the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack

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5. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
6. (uncountable) Hard work; toil.

同意語

• (fluid that exits the body through pores): perspiration
• sudor

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English sweten, from 古期英語 swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede.

動詞

sweat (三人称単数 現在形 sweats, 現在分詞 sweating, 過去形および過去分詞形 sweated または sweat)

1. (intransitive) To emit sweat.

   Synonym: perspire

2. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.

   His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

3. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.

   Synonyms: slave, slog

   I've been sweating over my essay all day.

4. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.

   to sweat a spendthrift

   to sweat labourers

5. (intransitive, informal) To worry.

   Synonyms: fret, worry

6. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something). [from 20th c.]
   • 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:

     There are few matters studio executives sweat more than maintaining their franchises.

7. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.

   to sweat blood

   • Dryden

     With exercise she sweat ill humors out.

8. (intransitive) To emit moisture.

   The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.

9. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
10. (transitive, slang) To stress out.

    Stop sweatin' me!

11. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
12. (transitive, archaic) 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.
    • R. Cobden

      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.

派生語

関連する語

• shvitz

アナグラム

• Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas