intransitive verb. To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely.

intransitive verb. To cause to fall down from a height; hurl downward.

intransitive verb. To put suddenly into a certain state or condition.

intransitive verb. To cause (a form of water, as rain or snow) to fall from the air.

intransitive verb. To cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution.

intransitive verb. To fall from the air as a form of water, such as rain or snow.

intransitive verb. To be separated from a solution as a solid.

adjective. Moving rapidly and heedlessly; speeding headlong.

adjective. Acting with or marked by excessive haste and lack of due deliberation. synonym: impetuous.

adjective. Occurring suddenly or unexpectedly.

noun. A solid or solid phase separated from a solution.

noun. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

To cast down headlong; fling from a precipice or height; hurl downward.

To cause to fall as a sediment to the bottom of a vessel; reduce from a state of solution to a solid form, as by means of a reagent or chemical force.

To drive forcibly; cause to hasten onward.

To hasten; bring hastily to pass; hurry up: as, to precipitate a flight.

To hasten intemperately or rashly; hence, to spoil; ruin.

To fall headlong.

To make haste; hurry; proceed without deliberation.

In chem., to separate from a solution as a precipitate.

Hurled headlong; plunging or rushing down, as by a steep descent; headlong.

Steep; precipitous.

Hasty; acting without due deliberation; rash.

Hastily brought to pass; speedy; hurried; sudden.

Synonyms and Precipitous now always expresses the physical attribute of a headlong steepness; precipitate the moral quality of being very hasty or overhasty. Other uses are obsolete or figurative.

noun. In Chem., any substance which, having been dissolved in a fluid, falls to the bottom of the vessel on the addition of some other substance capable of producing decomposition of the compound.

noun. Fusible white precipitate, colorless crystals, soluble in water (probably of the composition NHg₂C1.3NH₄Cl), which melt and then decompose on being heated: produced by boiling the infusible white precipitate with a solution of ammonium chlorid.

noun. An abbreviated term sometimes used to signify the bright yellow precipitate of ammonium phosphomolybdate frequently obtained in analysis as a proof of the presence of, or as the means of quantitatively determining, phosphorus or the radical of phosphoric acid and phosphates.

noun. An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.

noun. atmospheric moisture condensed as rain or snow, etc.; same as precipitation{5}.

noun. mercuric oxide (HgO) a heavy red crystalline powder obtained by heating mercuric nitrate, or by heating mercury in the air. Prepared in the latter manner, it was the precipitate per se of the alchemists.

noun. A white crystalline substance obtained by adding a solution of corrosive sublimate to a solution of sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride); -- formerly called also fusible white precipitate.

adjective. Overhasty; rash.

adjective. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time.

adjective. Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.

adjective. Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal.

intransitive verb. To dash or fall headlong.

intransitive verb. To hasten without preparation.

intransitive verb. To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.

transitive verb. To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.

transitive verb. To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon.

transitive verb. To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate.

noun. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

noun. A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

adjective. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

adjective. Very steep; precipitous.

adjective. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

adjective. Moving with excessive speed or haste.

adjective. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

verb. To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.

"The word precipitate has appeared in 46 New York Times articles in the past year, including on July 25 in the City Room blog post What Migraine?"

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hail  rain  rain down  sleet  snow  

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