different between sweater vs contactus

English

Etymology

From Middle English swetere, equivalent to sweat +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sw?t?/, /-??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?swet?/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(r), -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: sweat?er

Noun

sweater (plural sweaters)

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
2. (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
   • 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3

     We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

   Coordinate term: sweatee

   • 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)

     If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

7. (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
8. (Britain, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded weak passengers with his sword-point.

Synonyms

• (for sense 1): sweatshirt
• (for sense 2): jumper, pullover, jersey, cardigan, wooly
• (for sense 3): perspirer
• (for sense 4): exploiter

Derived terms

• sweater dress

Descendants

Translations

Verb

sweater (third-person singular simple present sweaters, present participle sweatering, simple past and past participle sweatered)

1. (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

Further reading

• sweater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• wearest

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of conting? (“touch on all sides”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?ta?k.tus/, [k?n??t?ä?kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?tak.tus/, [k?n??t??kt?us]

Participle

cont?ctus (feminine cont?cta, neuter cont?ctum); first/second-declension participle

1. touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides
2. reached, arrived at, having been reached
3. touched, affected, moved, having been moved

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

cont?ctus m (genitive cont?ct?s); fourth declension

1. The act of touching; contact, touch.
2. A contagion, infection.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Related terms

• cont?g?s
• cont?gi? / cont?gium / cont?men
• cont?gi?sus

Descendants

• ? English: contact
• Russian: ???????? (kontákt)

References

• contactus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contactus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contactus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette