Sweat vs. Wet — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sweat and Wet
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Sweat
Moisture exuded through the pores of the skin, typically in profuse quantities as a reaction to heat, physical exertion, fever, or fear
Beads of sweat broke out on her brow
Wet
Covered or saturated with water or another liquid
She followed, slipping on the wet rock
Sweat
Another term for sweatsuit or sweatpants
Wet
Showing a lack of forcefulness or strength of character; feeble
They thought the cadets were a bit wet
Sweat
Exude sweat
He was sweating profusely
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Wet
(of a country or region or of its legislation) allowing the free sale of alcoholic drink.
Sweat
Heat (chopped vegetables) slowly in a pan with a small amount of fat, so that they cook in their own juices
Sweat the celery and onions with olive oil and seasoning
Wet
Cover or touch with liquid; moisten
He wetted a finger and flicked through the pages
Sweat
Subject (metal) to surface melting, especially to fasten or join by solder without a soldering iron
The tyre is sweated on to the wooden parts
Wet
Liquid that makes something damp
I could feel the wet of his tears
Sweat
To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
Wet
A person lacking forcefulness or strength of character
There are sorts who look like gangsters and sorts who look like wets
Sweat
To exude in droplets, as moisture from certain cheeses or sap from a tree.
Wet
A person opposed to the prohibition of alcohol.
Sweat
To collect moisture in small drops from the air, as a cold water pipe.
Wet
Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water
A wet towel.
Sweat
To release moisture, as hay in the swath.
Wet
Not yet dry or firm
Wet paint.
Sweat
To ferment, as tobacco during curing.
Wet
Stored in or prepared with water or other liquids.
Sweat
(Informal) To work long and hard
Sweated over his term paper.
Wet
Characterized by the use or presence of water or liquid reagents
Wet chemistry.
Sweat
(Informal) To fret or worry
Don't sweat over the bills.
Wet
Involving the performance of experiments rather than the design or analysis of them
A wet lab.
Sweat
To excrete (moisture) through a porous surface, such as the skin.
Wet
Rainy, humid, or foggy
Wet weather.
Sweat
To excrete (wastes) in perspiration
Sweated out the toxins in the steam room.
Wet
Characterized by frequent or heavy precipitation
A wet climate.
Sweat
To have (moisture) condense in small drops on a surface.
Wet
(Informal) Allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages
A wet county.
Sweat
To cause to perspire, as by drugs, heat, or strenuous exercise
Running for the train got me sweated up.
Wet
Something that wets; moisture.
Sweat
To make damp or wet with perspiration
His shirt was sweated.
Wet
Rainy or snowy weather
Go out into the wet.
Sweat
To cause to work excessively; overwork.
Wet
(Informal) One who supports the legality of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Sweat
To overwork and underpay (employees).
Wet
To make wet; dampen
Wet a sponge.
Sweat
To interrogate (someone) under duress
Sweated the suspected spy for hours.
Wet
To make (a bed or one's clothes) wet by urinating.
Sweat
To extract (information) from someone under duress
The police sweated the information out of the suspect.
Wet
To become wet.
Sweat
(Metallurgy) To join (metal parts) by interposing cold solder and then heating.
Wet
To urinate.
Sweat
To steam (vegetables or other food).
Wet
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Water is wet.
Sweat
(Informal) To fret or worry about
Don't sweat the details.
Wet
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
Sweat
The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
Wet
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
Sweat
Condensation of moisture in the form of droplets on a surface.
Wet
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
Sweat
The process of sweating.
Wet
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
Sweat
A condition or instance of sweating
Worked up a sweat raking leaves.
Wet
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
Sweat
Strenuous labor or exertion
It took a lot of sweat to move the piano.
Wet
(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
Sweat
A run given to a horse as exercise before a race.
Wet
(slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
Sweat
(Informal) An anxious, fretful condition
Got myself in a sweat over the deadline.
Wet
Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
He got me all wet.
Sweat
A sweatsuit.
Wet
Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
Don’t be so wet.
Sweat
Sweatpants.
Wet
(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
Sweat
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.
Wet
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Sweat
The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
Wet
Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
Sweat
(figurative) Hard work; toil.
Wet
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
The wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
Sweat
(figurative) Moisture issuing from any substance.
Wet
Involving assassination or "wet work".
A wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
Sweat
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
Wet
Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
Sweat
(historical) The sweating sickness.
Wet
Liquid or moisture.
Sweat
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
Wet
Rainy weather.
Don't go out in the wet.
Sweat
An extremely competitive player.
Wet
(Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
Sweat
(intransitive) To emit sweat.
Wet
A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Sweat
(transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
Wet
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
Sweat
To cause to perspire.
His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
Wet
One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
Sweat
To work hard.
I've been sweating over my essay all day.
Wet
A tyre for use in wet weather.
Sweat
(video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
Wet
A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
Sweat
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
To sweat a spendthrift
To sweat labourers
Wet
(transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
Sweat
To worry.
Wet
(transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
Sweat
To worry about (something).
Don't sweat it!
To sweat the small stuff
Wet
(intransitive) To make or become wet.
Sweat
(transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
To sweat blood
Wet
To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
Sweat
(intransitive) To emit moisture.
The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it.
Wet
To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
To wet the baby's head
Sweat
(intransitive) To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
Coasters are a good way to stop a sweating glass from damaging your table.
Wet
Misspelling of whet
Sweat
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
Wet
To kill or seriously injure.
Sweat
To stress out.
Stop sweatin' me!
Wet
Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
Sweat
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
Wet
Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
Sweat
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.
Wet
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
Sweat
(intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
Wet
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Sweat
(transitive) To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
Wet
Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
Have here a cloth and wipe away the wet.
Now the sun, with more effectual beams,Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wetFrom drooping plant.
Sweat
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Wet
Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
Sweat
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He 'd have the poets sweat.
Wet
A dram; a drink.
Sweat
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Wet
To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky,Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
Let us drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
Sweat
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
Wet
Wetness caused by water;
Drops of wet gleamed on the window
Sweat
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
It made her not a drop for sweat.
With exercise she sweat ill humors out.
Wet
Cause to become wet;
Wet your face
Sweat
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
Wet
Make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating;
This eight year old boy still wets his bed
Sweat
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 only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.
Wet
Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water;
A wet bathing suit
Wet sidewalks
Wet paint
Wet weather
Sweat
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.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Wet
Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages;
A wet candidate running on a wet platform
A wet county
Sweat
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
Wet
Producing or secreting milk;
A wet nurse
A wet cow
Lactating cows
Sweat
Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
Wet
Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor;
A wet cargo
A wet canteen
Sweat
The sweating sickness.
Wet
Very drunk
Sweat
A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Sweat
Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands;
Sweat poured off his brow
Sweat
Agitation resulting from active worry;
Don't get in a stew
He's in a sweat about exams
Sweat
Condensation of moisture on a cold surface;
The cold glasses were streaked with sweat
Sweat
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work;
He got an A for effort
They managed only with great exertion
Sweat
Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin;
Exercise makes one sweat
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