Pronunciation
Verb:
- (RP, America) IPA: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
Adjective:
- (RP, America) IPA: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
common but often proscribed:
- (RP, America) IPA: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
precipitate (precipitates, present participle precipitating; 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
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- RQ
- if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- Synonyms: throw, fling, cast, Thesaurus:throw
- She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region 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.
- troponyms en
- It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- German: vorantreiben, beschleunigen
- Russian: ускорять
- German: stürzen, herabstürzen, hinabwerfen
- Spanish: tirar abajo, arrojar, precipitar
- Russian: втянуть
- French: précipiter
- German: niederschlagen, ausfällen
- Russian: выпадать в осадок
- Spanish: condensar, precipitar
- German: ausfällen
precipitate
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous
- Very steep; precipitous.
- Synonyms: brant
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, rash, Thesaurus:reckless
- Moving with excessive speed or haste.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- a precipitate case of disease
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous, Thesaurus:sudden
precipitate (plural precipitates)
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
- Russian: оса́док
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