precipitate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).
Base: prae
Affixes: -ceps
Inflected forms:
form: precipitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: precipitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: precipitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: precipitated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præcipitate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more precipitate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most precipitate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præcipitate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: precipitates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præcipitate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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
Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
Freshly arrived in Paris in 1871 at the age of 17, Rimbaud proceded ^([sic]) to precipitate the collapse of Verlaine's marital menage, and with it his social position.
gloss: To throw an object or person from a great height.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To send violently into a certain state or condition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: we were precipitated into a conflict
gloss: (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
gloss: (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
gloss: To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
gloss: To fall headlong.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
pos: adj
examples: When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
gloss: Very steep; precipitous.
pos: adj
gloss: With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
pos: adj
examples: Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences.
gloss: Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
'One moment!" said Malone. "I beg, sir, that you will not be precipitate. I value your friendship too much to risk the loss of it if it can, in any way, be avoided."
gloss: Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
pos: noun
examples: As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
gloss: A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
pos: noun
Synonyms: headlong
Related words: precipice
precipitation
praecipito
precipitous
Derived words: bioprecipitate
coprecipitate
cryoprecipitate
immunoprecipitate
nanoprecipitate
photoprecipitate
precipitated
precipitator
reprecipitate
precipitately
precipitateness
unprecipitate
microprecipitate
precipitin
red precipitate
white precipitate
yellow precipitate
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَسَّبَ
roman: rassaba
lang: Bulgarian
word: утаявам
roman: utajavam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沉澱 /沉淀
roman: chéndiàn
lang: Czech
word: vysrážet
lang: Dutch
word: precipiteren
lang: Dutch
word: bezinken
lang: Finnish
word: saostaa
lang: German
word: ausfällen
lang: Hungarian
word: kicsap
lang: Hungarian
word: leülepít
lang: Hungarian
word: lecsap
lang: Māori
word: whakahuatoka
lang: Polish
word: wytrącić
lang: Polish
word: wytrącać
lang: Polish
word: strącić
lang: Polish
word: strącać
lang: Polish
word: osadzić
lang: Polish
word: osadzać
lang: Romanian
word: depune
lang: Romanian
word: precipita
lang: Slovak
word: vyzrážať
lang: Vietnamese
word: kết tủa
lang: Welsh
word: gwaddodi