different between trickle vs sweat
trickle
English
Etymology
Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
trickle (plural trickles)
- A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa
- The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
Translations
Verb
trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
- (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Derived terms
- trickle truth
Translations
Anagrams
- tickler
trickle From the web:
- what trickle charger do i need
- what trickles
- what trickle charging mean
- what trickle means
- what trickle charger to buy
- what's trickle charge
- what's trickle down economics
- what trickles from those scars
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
sweat From the web:
- what sweatshirt
- what sweaters are in style 2020
- what sweats a lot
- what sweat glands are associated with hair
- what sweatpants are in style
- what sweatshirt size am i
- what sweater weather means
- what sweater material is itchy
you may also like
- trickle vs sweat
- physique vs cut
- unsettle vs fret
- eagerness vs infringement
- obliging vs well-behaved
- peril vs exposure
- pious vs strict
- estimation vs sentiment
- diversity vs disagreement
- disdain vs insolence
- detection vs attention
- bang vs overcome
- apprehension vs shock
- faulty vs wicked
- dismal vs lonely
- relate vs exclaim
- articulate vs yelp
- extrapolate vs foretell
- spirited vs smart
- promptitude vs earnestness