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Definition of Sweating

1. Noun. The process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid. "Perspiration is a homeostatic process"

Definition of Sweating

1. Noun. the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of sweat) ¹

3. Adjective. of or relating to one who is sweating ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sweating

1. sweat [v] - See also: sweat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweating

Literary usage of Sweating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report (1903)
"Other American writers who have described the sweating system in the United States are White (1896), Willoughby (1900) and Willett (1902) as cited below. ..."

2. The Clothing Industry in New York by Jesse Eliphalet Pope (1905)
"CHAPTER IX THE sweating SYSTEM In previous chapters attention has been ... Any study of the clothing industry which did not give sweating more than an ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A house for sweating persons as a hygienic or curative procese. ... In dairy business, a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. ..."

4. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1901)
"REGULATION OF THE sweating SYSTEM. Though the regulation of the sweating system, so far as it is attempted by any of the states, usually falls upon the ..."

5. Problems of Modern Industry by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1920)
"CHAPTER VI HOW TO DO AWAY WITH THE sweating SYSTEM 1 BEFORE we can hope to solve the problem which forms the subject matter of this paper, we must answer ..."

6. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the American by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American Social Science Association, Frederick Stanley Root (1890)
"In February, 1888, a Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed to investigate certain industrial conditions known by the name of the " sweating ..."

7. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1892)
"In February, 1888, a Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed to investigate certain industrial conditions known by the name of the " sweating ..."

8. Annual Report (1903)
"Other American writers who have described the sweating system in the United States are White (1896), Willoughby (1900) and Willett (1902) as cited below. ..."

9. The Clothing Industry in New York by Jesse Eliphalet Pope (1905)
"CHAPTER IX THE sweating SYSTEM In previous chapters attention has been ... Any study of the clothing industry which did not give sweating more than an ..."

10. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A house for sweating persons as a hygienic or curative procese. ... In dairy business, a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. ..."

11. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1901)
"REGULATION OF THE sweating SYSTEM. Though the regulation of the sweating system, so far as it is attempted by any of the states, usually falls upon the ..."

12. Problems of Modern Industry by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1920)
"CHAPTER VI HOW TO DO AWAY WITH THE sweating SYSTEM 1 BEFORE we can hope to solve the problem which forms the subject matter of this paper, we must answer ..."

13. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Transactions of the American by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American Social Science Association, Frederick Stanley Root (1890)
"In February, 1888, a Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed to investigate certain industrial conditions known by the name of the " sweating ..."

14. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1892)
"In February, 1888, a Select Committee of the House of Lords was appointed to investigate certain industrial conditions known by the name of the " sweating ..."

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