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# perspiration

«perspiration» in Mova's school dictionary: **sweat: the salty water that comes out of your skin when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (perspiration — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Perspiration is sweat: the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are hot or working hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#m1)

2) Perspiration is the act of sweating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body it explains how we cool down: sweat evaporates and takes heat away. In polite or formal speech «perspiration» sounds nicer than «sweat». A famous saying: «Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration» (hard work matters most).

### examples

- Perspiration helps keep your body cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x1)
- Beads of perspiration ran down his face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x2)
- After the race, my shirt was wet with perspiration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x3)
- Drink water to replace what you lose in perspiration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x4)
- Perspiration contains water and salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x5)
- The heat made everyone break into perspiration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x6)
- Deodorant reduces the smell of perspiration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x7)
- Success needs lots of perspiration and practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x8)
- Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural. More polite or formal than «sweat». Verb: perspire. Spelling: per-spir-ation (not «prespiration»). Myth: sweat itself does not smell much; bacteria cause the smell.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perspiration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perspiration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.