precipitate
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- præcipitate (obsolete)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin praecipitatus, from praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”), from prae (“before”) + caput (“head”). Its English equivalent is probably analyzable as precipice + -ate.
Pronunciation
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Adjective:
common but often proscribed:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- Synonyms: advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up
- to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
- it precipitated their success
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Ambition”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
- 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas Book 4
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- 1979 December 29, Rudy Kikel, “Young Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 15:
- 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.
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- Synonyms: throw, fling, cast; see also Thesaurus:throw
- 1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Hawking”, in Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists. A Medley. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 182:
- 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.
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- we were precipitated into a conflict
- (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
- (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten
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to throw an object or person from a great height
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to send violently into a certain state or condition
to come out of a liquid solution into solid form
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to separate out of a liquid solution into solid form
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to have water in the air fall to the ground
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Adjective
[edit]precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, book 2, lines 853–854:
- When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
- Very steep; precipitous.
- Synonym: brant
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, rash; see also Thesaurus:reckless
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 145:
- 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.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- a precipitate case of disease
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- '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."
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
- 1931, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Headlong; falling steeply or vertically
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Very steep; precipitous
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With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong
Moving with excessive speed or haste
Performed very rapidly or abruptly
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Etymology 2
[edit]From New Latin praecipitatum. Doublet of precipitato.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
Noun
[edit]precipitate (plural precipitates)
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 381:
- As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
- (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
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[edit]chemistry: solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
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Further reading
[edit]- “precipitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “precipitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “precipitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]precipitate f pl
Participle
[edit]precipitate f pl
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]precipitate
- inflection of precipitare:
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]precipitate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of precipitar combined with te
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