different between sweater vs sweated

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

English

Verb

sweated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sweat

Adjective

sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)

1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     “Do you like jennying?” he asked.

     “What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.

     “Is it sweated?”

     “More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”

   • 1920, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III

     So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]