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Precipitate vs Forcible - What's the difference?

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Precipitate is a related term of forcible.


As adjectives the difference between precipitate and forcible

is that precipitate is headlong; falling steeply or vertically while forcible is able to be forced.

As a verb precipitate

is to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.

As a noun precipitate

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

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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    forcible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be forced.
  • Having force.
  • * Bible, Job vi. 2
    • How forcible are right words!
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
  • * Hooker
    • That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
  • Done by force. Oxford American Dictionaries (MacBook widget)
  • * 2008 , U.S. Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States
    • Forcible rape, as defined in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included; however, statutory rape (without force) and other sex offenses are excluded.
  • Having a powerful effect; telling

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