different between transpiration vs perspiring

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transpiration, from Medieval Latin transpiratio, from transpiro, from Latin trans + spiro.

Noun

transpiration (countable and uncountable, plural transpirations)

1. (botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
2. (physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
3. The passage of gases through fine tubes.

Related terms

• transpire

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin transpiratio, transpirationem, from transpiro, from Latin trans + spiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

transpiration f (plural transpirations)

1. transpiration
2. sweat (bodily fluid)

Synonyms

• sueur

Related terms

• transpirer

Further reading

• “transpiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Adjective

perspiring (comparative more perspiring, superlative most perspiring)

1. Producing perspiration; sweating.

Translations

Noun

perspiring (countable and uncountable, plural perspirings)

1. The act of producing perspiration.
   • 2015, Seneca (in translation), Dialogues (page 173)

     Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.

Synonyms

• sweating

Verb

perspiring

1. present participle of perspire