precipitate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make something happen suddenly and quickly.

   • to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
   • it precipitated their success
   • if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
2. 2

   To throw an object or person from a great height.

   • In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.
3. 3

   To send violently into a certain state or condition.

   • we were precipitated into a conflict
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   1. 4

      (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

      • Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
   2. 5

      (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.

   3. 6

      To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

      To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.

      • It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
   4. 7

      To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.

      • The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
   5. 8

      To fall headlong.

   6. 9

      To act too hastily

      To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

   7. 10

      headlong

      headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

      • When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
   8. 11

      Very steep

      Very steep; precipitous.

   9. 12

      With a hasty impulse

      With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

   10. 13

       Moving with excessive speed or haste

       Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.

       • The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
       • a precipitate case of disease
       • Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
   11. 14

       Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

       • It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.
   12. 15

       A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

       • As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
   13. 16

       A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

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