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sweater

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈswɛtə//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈswɛtɚ//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//-ɾɚ//
  • Australien//ˈswetə//

A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

  2. 2

    A similar garment worn for warmth.

    We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater

  3. 3

    One who sweats (produces sweat).

    The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.

  4. 4

    One who or that which causes to sweat.

    We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

  5. 5

    A diaphoretic remedy.

  6. 6

    historischAn exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.

    If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.

  7. 7

    altertümlichOne who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.

  8. 8

    veraltetA London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.

    Among them were the "sweaters" who formed a circle round their prisoner and pricked him with their swords until he sank exhausted to the ground, […]

Herkunft

From Middle English swētere, equivalent to sweat + -er.

Verb

  1. 1

    To dress in a sweater.

Formen

Plural
sweaters
Präteritum
sweatered
Partizip II
sweatered
Partizip I
sweatering
3. Person Singular
sweaters
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