SWEATS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweats mean? 

• SWEATS (noun)
  The noun SWEATS has 1 sense:

1. garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt

  Familiarity information: SWEATS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEATS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sweat suit; sweats; sweatsuit; workout suit

Hypernyms ("sweats" is a kind of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Meronyms (parts of "sweats"):

sweat pants; sweatpants (loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes)

sweatshirt (cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity)

 Context examples 

Other symptoms include fever, night sweats, and weight loss.

(diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

A question about whether an individual has or had night sweats.

(Have Night Sweats, NCI Thesaurus)

Other symptoms include fever, weight loss, fatigue, or night sweats.

(Hodgkin Disease, NCI Dictionary)

At other times, they can cause lung symptoms similar to tuberculosis: • Cough • Weight loss • Coughing up blood or mucus • Weakness or fatigue • Fever and chills • Night sweats • Lack of appetite and weight loss

(Mycobacterial Infections, NIH)

It is a standard list of 21 questions which women use to rate how much they are bothered by menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty sleeping.

(Greene Menopause Index, NCI Dictionary)

Vasomotor symptoms typically include: palpitations, hot flashes and night sweats.

(Menopausal Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you have symptoms, they may include: • Fatigue • Weight loss • Night sweats • Fever • Pain or a feeling of fullness below the ribs on the left side

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Other symptoms may include a skin rash, fever, weight loss, or night sweats.

(angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

Finally, the stage is subdivided into categories of A and B depending on the presence of symptoms of itching, weight loss, fever, and night sweats.

(Ann Arbor Lymphoma Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)