Sekirov Dictionary

precipitate

/pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/

verb 9
/pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/ adjective 5
/pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/ noun 2
forms 7

verb9

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To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- it precipitated their success
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
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(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
To throw an object or person from a great height.
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To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- we were precipitated into a conflict
To fall headlong.
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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.
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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. — 1819
To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

precipitate

/pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/

adjective5

With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
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Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
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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. — 1931
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headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows. — 1718
Very steep; precipitous.

noun2

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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. — 1976
A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

forms

precipitated · precipitating · precipitates · precipitateth · precipitatest · more precipitate · most precipitate

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