different between bleed vs sweat

English

Etymology

From Middle English bleden, from Old English bl?dan (“to bleed”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?þijan? (“to bleed”), from *bl?þ? (“blood”). Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bli?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)

1. (intransitive, of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

2. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
3. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
4. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

5. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

6. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.

   • And so Sir Trystrames bledde bothe the over-shete and the neyther-shete, and the pylowes and the hede-shete

9. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

10. To lose sap, gum, or juice.

11. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
12. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

13. (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
    • 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)

      Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]

    • 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, ?Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing (page 361)

      Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.

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Noun

bleed (plural bleeds)

1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.

3. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
4. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
5. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

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Translations

References

• bleed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• bleed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Lebed, bedel, debel

Plautdietsch

Adjective

bleed

1. shy, coy
2. modest
3. withdrawn
4. timid, reticent, reluctant

Derived terms

• Bleedheit

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sw?t, IPA^(key): /sw?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English sw?t, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swait?, 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 ??????? (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian ????? (xw?d, “moist, fresh”), Sanskrit ????? (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B sy?-, and Albanian djersë.

Noun

sweat (usually uncountable, plural 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.

   Synonym: perspiration

2. The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.

3. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
4. (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.
5. Moisture issuing from any substance.
6. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
7. (uncountable) Hard work; toil.

Synonyms

• sudor

Derived terms

Descendants

• Torres Strait Creole: swet

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sweten, from Old English sw?tan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijan? (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.

Verb

sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past and past participle sweated or sweat)

1. (intransitive) To emit sweat.

   Synonym: perspire

2. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
   1. To cause to perspire.

3. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.

   Synonyms: slave, slog

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

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:

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

   • With exercise she sweat ill humors out.

   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     I was sipping a third, but I had no kind of buzz on; apparently I had sweat the beer out as rapidly as I drank it.

8. (intransitive) To emit moisture.

9. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
10. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
11. (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
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.
    • 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)

13. (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
14. (transitive) To scrape the sweat from (a horse).

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Translations

Related terms

• shvitz

Anagrams

• Weast, swate, tawse, waste, wetas

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sweatshirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swit/

Noun

sweat m (plural sweats)

1. sweatshirt