sweating
part of speech
verb (sweat, sweats, sweated or sweat, sweating — "sweating" is the -ing form); noun (sweating — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Giving out a salty liquid (sweat) through tiny holes in the skin, especially when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous. tree →
2) Informal: worrying a lot about something: I'm sweating about the test. tree →
3) Working very hard. tree →
4) Of things like a cold glass or cheese, having little drops of water on the surface. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, sweating cools the body: sweat evaporates from the skin and takes heat away with it. This is why you sweat when you run or on a hot day; you need to drink water to replace what you lose. In health, sweating a lot with a fever is common when ill. In hygiene, sweat itself does not smell, but bacteria on skin make body odour, so wash and change clothes after sport. Phrases: "sweating buckets" (a lot), "no sweat" (no problem), "break a sweat", "cold sweat" (fear).
examples
- I was sweating after running round the field. tree →
- Drink water because you lose water when you are sweating. tree →
- The cold can of lemonade was sweating in the sun. tree →
- Sweating helps cool your body down. tree →
- He was sweating with nerves before the spelling test. tree →
- We were sweating buckets on the hot beach. tree →
- Shower after sport to wash away the sweat. tree →
- Don't sweat it — you'll do fine. tree →
note
Past form: "sweated" (American English also uses "sweat"). Pronounced "swet". "Perspiration" is a more formal word. A glass "sweating" is really condensation: water from the air turning to liquid on the cold surface — not sweat coming from the glass.
In the corpora
- Heatstroke is an emergency: a child who is hot, confused or stops sweating needs to be cooled and get help at once.
- Sun cream is put on again at least every 2 hours, and after sweating hard or towelling.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sweating» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.