Precipitate vs Cause - What's the difference?
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To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
* Glover
* Francis Bacon
To throw an object or person from a great height.
* Washington Irving
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.
(meteorology) 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.
* Washington Irving
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
(chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
* Prior
Very steep; precipitous.
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
Moving with excessive speed or haste.
Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
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, title= A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
(obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vii. 12
(obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
* Shakespeare
(legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
To set off an event or action.
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To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
* Bible, (w) vii.4
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, title= To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
As verbs the difference between precipitate and cause
is that precipitate is to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten while cause is to set off an event or action.As nouns the difference between precipitate and cause
is that precipitate is a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action while cause is the source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.As an adjective precipitate
is headlong; falling steeply or vertically.precipitate
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(precipitat)- to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.
- She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.
- Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate .
- It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* precipitated * precipitator * red precipitate * white precipitateEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
- The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
- a precipitate case of disease
Derived terms
* precipitately * precipitatenessExternal links
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* English heteronyms ----cause
English
Noun
(en noun)- Her wedding will be cause for celebration.
- They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- God befriend us, as our cause is just.
- The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause .
- I did it not for his cause .
- What counsel give you in this weighty cause ?
Synonyms
* (source or reason) reason, sourceDerived terms
* because * causal * causality * causative * cause celebre * efficient cause * final cause * for cause (law) * formal cause * material causeSee also
* effectVerb
(caus)- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
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- I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
- (Spenser)