different between drain vs sweat

English

Alternative forms

• drein (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dreinen, from Old English dr?ahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhn?n? (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English dr?gian (“to dry up”), Old English dr?gaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English dr??e (“dry”). More at dry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?n/, IPA^(key): /d??e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

drain (plural drains)

1. (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
2. (chiefly Britain) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
3. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

4. (vulgar) An act of urination.
5. (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. (pinball) An outhole.
7. (Britain, slang, dated) A drink.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes

     When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"

   • 1966, Henry Mayhew, ?Peter Quennell, London's Underworld (page 48)

     What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.

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Translations

Verb

drain (third-person singular simple present drains, present participle draining, simple past and past participle drained)

1. (intransitive) To lose liquid.

   The clogged sink drained slowly.

   • Knock knock.
     Who's there?
     Dwayne.
     Dwayne who?
     Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
2. (intransitive) To flow gradually.

   The water of low ground drains off.

3. (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.

   Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

4. (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

   They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

5. (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.

   The stress of this job is really draining me.

6. (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
   • But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
8. (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

Derived terms

• drainable
• drainage
• drain away
• draining (adjective)
• drain out
• drain the lizard (vulgar)
• drain the main vain

Descendants

• ? French: drainer (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Anagrams

• Darin, Drina, Indra, Nadir, Nardi, Ndari, Radin, dinar, nadir, ranid

Cimbrian

Numeral

drain

1. dative of drai

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).

Derived terms

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