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Precipitate is a related term of flying.


As verbs the difference between precipitate and flying

is that precipitate is to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten while flying is .

As nouns the difference between precipitate and flying

is that precipitate is a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action while flying is an act of flight.

As adjectives the difference between precipitate and flying

is that precipitate is headlong; falling steeply or vertically while flying is that can fly.

precipitate

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(precipitat)
  • To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
    • to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
  • * Glover
    • Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.
  • To throw an object or person from a great height.
  • * Washington Irving
    • She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.
  • To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  • (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
    • Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate .
  • (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.
    • It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
  • To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
    Synonyms
    * (l)
    Derived terms
    * precipitated * precipitator * red precipitate * white precipitate
    Related terms
    * precipice * precipitation

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
  • (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
  • * Prior
    • Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
  • Very steep; precipitous.
  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
  • Moving with excessive speed or haste.
    • The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
    a precipitate case of disease
  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
    • Derived terms
    * precipitately * precipitateness

    Related terms

    * precipitous

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    Anagrams

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    flying

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That can fly.
    • (flying fox)
  • Brief or hurried.
    • (flying visit)
  • (nautical, of a sail) Not secured by yards.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * flyingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flight.
  • * 1993 , John C. Greene, ?Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745 (page 58)
    • "Flyings'" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, ' flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds"