Associations to the word «Precipitate»

Wiktionary

PRECIPITATE, verb. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (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.
PRECIPITATE, verb. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
PRECIPITATE, noun. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
PRECIPITATE, noun. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
PRECIPITATE, adjective. Headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
PRECIPITATE, adjective. Very steep; precipitous.
PRECIPITATE, adjective. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
PRECIPITATE, adjective. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
PRECIPITATE, adjective. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

Dictionary definition

PRECIPITATE, noun. A precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering.
PRECIPITATE, verb. Bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution".
PRECIPITATE, verb. Separate as a fine suspension of solid particles.
PRECIPITATE, verb. Fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum".
PRECIPITATE, verb. Fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin".
PRECIPITATE, verb. Hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below".
PRECIPITATE, adjective. Done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King