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# sweat

«sweat» in Mova's school dictionary: **the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sweat, uncountable); verb (sweat, sweats, sweated or sweat, sweating); adjective sweaty

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sweat is the salty water that comes out of your skin when you are hot, exercising, ill or nervous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#m1)

2) To sweat means to give out sweat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#m2)

3) To sweat can mean to work very hard, or to worry: don't sweat it means don't worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons sweating cools the body: sweat dries (evaporates) from the skin and takes heat away. When you sweat a lot in sport or hot weather, drink water to replace it. In hygiene lessons, wash and change clothes after sweating so you don't smell. Phrases: cold sweat, no sweat (easy), sweat it out, break a sweat, sweatshirt.

### examples

- I sweat a lot when I play football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x1)
- Sweat helps your body cool down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x2)
- Drink water when you sweat on hot days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x3)
- He was in a cold sweat before the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x4)
- No sweat, I can do that easily! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x5)
- My T-shirt was wet with sweat after the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x6)
- Have a shower after sport to wash off the sweat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x7)
- Don't sweat it; everyone makes mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x8)
- The sweat ran down his face, but he dried it with his gauntlet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sweat/#x9)

### note

Uncountable noun: some sweat. Past: «sweated» (also «sweat» in American English). «Sweat» rhymes with «wet» (not with «sweet»). A «sweatshirt» is a warm top, and «sweatpants» are soft trousers. Fresh sweat has little smell; the smell comes from bacteria on the skin.

### In the corpora

- [Crocodiles cannot sweat, so they lie with their mouths open to let heat out and go into water or shade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/12/)
- [Pigs wallow in mud to keep cool, because they cannot sweat much, and the mud also protects their skin from sunburn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/4/)
- [Fresh sweat hardly smells; it is the tiny bacteria that eat it that make the pong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath/2/)
- [Water evaporating from your skin takes heat away, which is why sweat cools you and wet hair feels cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/16/)
- ["Body odour" (BO) is the polite name for the smell of sweat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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