Sweat
of Sweat
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
The sweating sickness.
A short run by a race horse in exercise.
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Sweat Quotations
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Michael Jordan
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
Elizabeth Taylor
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
Zora Neale Hurston
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
Lee Trevino
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers
Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
Orlando Bloom
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards
I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
Ethel Waters
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
Ryan White
Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Juvenal
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Sweat Translations
sweat in Danish is svede
sweat in Dutch is zweten, transpireren
sweat in Finnish is hikoilla
sweat in French is transpirer, suer, transpiration
sweat in Italian is sudare, sudore
sweat in Portuguese is suar, suor
sweat in Spanish is sudor, sudar, transpirar
sweat in Swedish is svettas, svett
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