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Sovereign vs Precipitate - What's the difference?

sovereign | precipitate |

As adjectives the difference between sovereign and precipitate

is that sovereign is exercising power of rule while precipitate is headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

As nouns the difference between sovereign and precipitate

is that sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country while precipitate is a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

As a verb precipitate is

to make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.

sovereign

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exercising power of rule.
  • sovereign nation
  • Exceptional in quality.
  • Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.v:
  • The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze
  • * (rfdate) Dryden
  • a sovereign remedy
  • * (rfdate) South
  • Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
  • Having supreme, ultimate power.
  • Princely; royal.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
  • most sovereign name
  • Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
  • * (rfdate) Hooker
  • We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

    Derived terms

    * sovereignly

    Synonyms

    * autonomous * supreme

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A monarch; the ruler of a country.
  • * Jefferson
  • No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign , that is, to the nation.
  • One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
  • A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
  • A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
  • Any butterfly of the tribe , as the (ursula) and the viceroy.
  • Hyponyms

    * (monarch) king, queen

    Derived terms

    * sovereignty

    See also

    * half sovereign/half-sovereign English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    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

    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

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