sweat
part of speech
noun (sweat, uncountable); verb (sweat, sweats, sweated or sweat, sweating); adjective sweaty
meaning for a pupil
1) Sweat is the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous. tree →
2) To sweat means to give out sweat. tree →
3) To sweat can mean to work very hard, or to worry: don't sweat it means don't worry. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In "the sweat of thy face" it stands for hard labor, part of Adam's punishment after he ate the forbidden fruit. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as the start of human work. Work is seen as hard, but also as a way to live well and be responsible. In the primary lessons: In science and health lessons sweating cools the body: sweat dries (evaporates) from the skin and takes heat away. When you sweat a lot in sport or hot weather, drink water to replace it. In hygiene lessons, wash and change clothes after sweating so you don't smell. Phrases: cold sweat, no sweat (easy), sweat it out, break a sweat, sweatshirt.
examples
- In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.' (Torah GEN.3.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. (Prophets EZK.44.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- I sweat a lot when I play football. tree →
- Sweat helps your body cool down. tree →
- Drink water when you sweat on hot days. tree →
- He was in a cold sweat before the test. tree →
- No sweat, I can do that easily! tree →
- My T-shirt was wet with sweat after the race. tree →
- Have a shower after sport to wash off the sweat. tree →
- Don't sweat it; everyone makes mistakes. tree →
- The sweat ran down his face, but he dried it with his gauntlet. tree →
note
Uncountable noun: some sweat. Past: «sweated» (also «sweat» in American English). «Sweat» rhymes with «wet» (not with «sweet»). A «sweatshirt» is a warm top, and «sweatpants» are soft trousers. Fresh sweat has little smell; the smell comes from bacteria on the skin.
In the corpora
- Crocodiles cannot sweat, so they lie with their mouths open to let heat out and go into water or shade.
- Pigs wallow in mud to keep cool, because they cannot sweat much, and the mud also protects their skin from sunburn.
- Fresh sweat hardly smells; it is the tiny bacteria that eat it that make the pong.
- Water evaporating from your skin takes heat away, which is why sweat cools you and wet hair feels cold.
- "Body odour" (BO) is the polite name for the smell of sweat.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sweat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.