different between sweater vs swelter
sweater
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)
- A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
- One who sweats (produces sweat).
- 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.
- 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3
- A diaphoretic remedy.
- (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.
- (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
- (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)
- (transitive) To dress in a sweater.
Further reading
- sweater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- wearest
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swelter
English
Etymology
From Middle English sweltren, swaltren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-Germanic *sweltan? (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt +? -er (frequentative suffix). More at swelt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sw?l.t?/
- Rhymes: -?lt?(r)
Verb
swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)
- (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
- (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
- (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
- It was so rare a piece of fun
To see the swelter'd cattle run
- It was so rare a piece of fun
- 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
Translations
Noun
swelter (plural swelters)
- Intense heat.
Translations
Anagrams
- Lewters, Welters, welters, wrestle
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