English Explanatory Dictionary

precipitate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
To throw an object or person from a great height.
To send violently into a certain state or condition.
(chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
To fall headlong.
To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

adj

headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
Very steep; precipitous.
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

noun

A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

Pronunciation

/pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/ /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/ en-us-precipitate-verb.ogg /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/ /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/ en-us-precipitate-adj.ogg en-au-precipitate.ogg

Word forms

precipitate precipitates precipitating precipitated præcipitate more precipitate most precipitate

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”).

Synonyms

headlong advance accelerate hasten speed up throw fling cast bung chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill toss traject warp whang whip whop wing precipitant precipitous brant hotheaded impetuous rash daring devil-may-care headstrong heedless imprudent impulsive quick-and-dirty reckless sudden temeritous abrupt

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

Arabic: رَسَّبَ Bulgarian: утаявам Chinese Mandarin: 沉澱 /沉淀 Czech: vysrážet Dutch: precipiteren Dutch: bezinken Finnish: saostaa German: ausfällen Hungarian: kicsap Hungarian: leülepít Hungarian: lecsap Māori: whakahuatoka Polish: wytrącić Polish: wytrącać Polish: strącić Polish: strącać Polish: osadzić Polish: osadzać Romanian: depune Romanian: precipita Slovak: vyzrážať Vietnamese: kết tủa Welsh: gwaddodi

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