sweat

Topic: BIOLOGY

Date:	1300-1400
Origin:	SWEAT¹

sweat
2 noun

sweat2

[uncountable] drops of salty liquid that come out through your skin when you are hot, frightened, ill, or doing exercise [= perspiration]:

Ian came off the squash court dripping with sweat.

Beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Sweat poured down his face.

work up a sweat (=do physical exercise or hard work that makes you sweat)

Karen was on the exercise bikes, just beginning to break a sweat (=start sweating).

informal to become nervous or frightened about something:

Don't get into such a sweat about it! It's only a test.

to become very nervous or frightened:

Drops in stock market prices have investors breaking out into a sweat.

a state of nervousness or fear, in which you start to sweat, even though you are not hot

in/into a cold sweat

I woke up from the nightmare in a cold sweat.

spoken used to say that you can do something easily:

'Are you sure you can do it on time?' 'Yeah, no sweat!'

[plural] American English informal

a) DCCDS clothes made of thick, soft cotton, worn especially for sport [= sweatsuit]

b) DCCDS trousers of this type [= sweat pants]

[singular] old-fashioned hard work, especially when it is boring or unpleasant

literary the hard effort that someone has made in their work

Definition of sweat from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic BIOLOGY

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