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 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
- 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.