drip vs sweat

drip

verb
  • To rain lightly. 

  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

noun
  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

sweat

verb
  • To emit moisture. 

  • To stress out. 

  • To cause to excrete moisture through skin. 

  • To emit sweat. 

  • To worry about (something). 

  • To cause to perspire. 

  • To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation. 

  • To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively. 

  • To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression. 

  • To solder (a pipe joint) together. 

  • To take a racehorse for a short exercise run. 

  • To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content. 

  • To worry. 

  • To work hard. 

  • To emit, in the manner of sweat. 

  • To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds. 

noun
  • The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis. 

  • Hard work; toil. 

  • A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise. 

  • An extremely competitive player. 

  • The sweating sickness. 

  • 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. 

  • A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced). 

  • Moisture issuing from any substance. 

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