The difference between Stew and Sweat
When used as nouns, stew means a cooking-dish used for boiling, whereas sweat means 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.
When used as verbs, stew means to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering, whereas sweat means to emit sweat.
check bellow for the other definitions of Stew and Sweat
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Stew as a noun (obsolete):
A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
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Stew as a noun (now, _, historical):
A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
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Stew as a noun (archaic):
A brothel.
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Stew as a noun (obsolete):
A prostitute.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir A. Weldon"
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Stew as a noun (uncountable, countable):
A dish cooked by stewing.
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Stew as a noun (Sussex):
A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
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Stew as a noun (US, regional):
An artificial bed of oysters.
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Stew as a noun (slang):
A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
Examples:
"to be in a stew'"
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Stew as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative):
To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
Examples:
"I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."
"The meat is stewing nicely."
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Stew as a verb (transitive):
To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
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Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
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Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
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Stew as a noun:
A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
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Sweat as a noun:
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.
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Sweat as a noun (British, slang, military slang, especially WWI):
A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
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Sweat as a noun (historical):
The sweating sickness.
Examples:
"rfquotek Holinshed"
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Sweat as a noun:
Moisture issuing from any substance.
Examples:
"the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Sweat as a noun:
A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
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Sweat as a noun (uncountable):
Hard work; toil.
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Sweat as a verb (intransitive):
To emit sweat.
Examples:
"synonyms: perspire"
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Sweat as a verb (transitive):
To cause to excrete moisture through skin. To cause to perspire.
Examples:
"His physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics."
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Sweat as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To work hard.
Examples:
"synonyms: slave slog"
"I've been sweating over my essay all day."
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Sweat as a verb (transitive, informal):
To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
Examples:
"to sweat a spendthrift"
"to sweat labourers"
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Sweat as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To worry.
Examples:
"synonyms: fret worry"
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Sweat as a verb (transitive, colloquial):
To worry about (something).
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Sweat as a verb (transitive):
To emit, in the manner of sweat.
Examples:
"to sweat blood"
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Sweat as a verb (intransitive):
To emit moisture.
Examples:
"The cheese will start sweating if you don't refrigerate it."
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Sweat as a verb (intransitive, plumbing):
To solder (a pipe joint) together.
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Sweat as a verb (transitive, slang):
To stress out.
Examples:
"Stop sweatin' me!"
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Sweat as a verb (transitive, intransitive, cooking):
To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
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Sweat as a verb (transitive, archaic):
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.