different between sweat vs froth
sweat
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)
- 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
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- (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.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 131:
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To emit sweat.
- Synonym: perspire
- (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To cause to perspire.
- To cause to perspire.
- (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
- Synonyms: slave, slog
- (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- (intransitive, informal) To worry.
- Synonyms: fret, worry
- (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something). [from 20th c.]
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- 2010, Brooks Barnes, "Studios battle to save Narnia", The New York Times, 5 Dec 2010:
- (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.
- (intransitive) To emit moisture.
- (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- (transitive, slang) To stress out.
- (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- (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)
- 1879, Richard Cobden, On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold (originally by Michel Chevalier)
- (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- (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)
- sweatshirt
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froth
English
Etymology
From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþ?; Old English ?fr?oþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /f???/
- Rhymes: -??, Rhymes: -???
Noun
froth (countable and uncountable, plural froths)
- foam
- (figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel
- Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)
- (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book Two, Chapter 7, [1]
- One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.
- I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book Two, Chapter 7, [1]
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” lines 21-4, [2]
- Colder and louder blew the wind,
- A gale from the Northeast,
- The snow fell hissing in the brine,
- And the billows frothed like yeast.
- 1973, “Black Day in Brussels,” Time, 19 February, 1973, [3]
- English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed.
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” lines 21-4, [2]
- (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
- 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, [4]
- The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.
- He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,
- And churns it thro’ his teeth […]
- 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Merlin and Vivien” in Idylls of the King, [5]
- […] is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
- 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, [4]
- (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
- 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), translated by Kimon Friar, London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,
- The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,
- opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.
- 1962, “Riding Crime's Crest” in Time, 25 April, 1962, [6]
- As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle).
- 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), translated by Kimon Friar, London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,
- (transitive) To cover with froth.
- A horse froths his chain.
Translations
Derived terms
- frothy
- froth at the mouth
- froth up
References
Anagrams
- Forth, forth, forth-
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