different between drip vs sweat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Derived terms

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Translations

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