English-Thai Dictionary
precipitate
ADJ ทันทีทันใด tan-te-tan-dai
precipitate
ADJ หุนหันพลันแล่น ทำ อย่าง รีบเร่ง ไม่ได้ คิด ก่อน hun-han-pan-lean
precipitate
N ตะกอน ta-kon
precipitate
VI ตกตะกอน drop fall rise soar tok-ta-kon
precipitate
VT ทำให้ ตกตะกอน drop fall rise soar tam-hai-tok-ta-kon
precipitate
VT ส่ง ไป อย่างรวดเร็ว hurry song-pai-yang-ruad-reo
precipitate
VT เร่ง ให้ เกิด เร็ว ขึ้น accelerate rang-hai-koed-reo-kuan
precipitate into
PHRV เร่ง ผลักดัน ให้ เกิด rang
precipitately
ADV อย่าง ทันทีทันใด yang-tan-te-tan-dai
precipitately
ADV อย่าง หุนหันพลันแล่น yang-huan-han-pan-lean
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PRECIPITATE
v.t.[L. proecipito, from proeceps, headlong. See Precipice. ] 1. To throw headlong; as, he precipitated himself from a rock.
2. To urge or press with eagerness or violence; as, to precipitate a flight.
3. To hasten.
Short intermittent and swift recurrent pains do precipitate patients into consumptions.
4. To hurry blindly or rashly.
If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs and prove dangerous.
5. To throw to the bottom of a vessel; as a substance in solution.
All metals may be precipitated by alkaline salts.
PRECIPITATE
v.i.To fall headlong. 1. To fall to the bottom of a vessel, as sediment, or any substance in solution.
2. To hasten without preparation.
PRECIPITATE
a.Falling, flowing or rushing with steep descent. Precipitate the furious torrent flows.
1. Headlong; over hasty; rashly hasty; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
2. Adopted with haste or without due deliberation; hasty; as a precipitate measure.
3. Hasty; violent; terminating speedily in death; as a precipitate case of disease.
PRECIPITATE
n.A substance which, having been dissolved, is again separated from its solvent and thrown to the bottom of the vessel by pouring another liquor upon it. Precipitate per se,
Red precipitate, the red oxyd or peroxyd of mercury.
PRECIPITATED
pp. Hurried; hastened rashly; thrown headlong.
PRECIPITATELY
adv. Headlong; with steep descent. 1. Hastily; with rash haste; without due caution. Neither praise nor censure precipitately.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PRECIPITATE
Pre *cip "i *tate, a. Etym: [L. praecipitatus, p. p. of praecipitare to precipitate, fr. praeceps headlong. See Precipice. ]
1. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon.
2. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course. " Landor.
3. Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Prior.
4. Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease. [Obs. ] Arbuthnot.
PRECIPITATE
Pre *cip "i *tate, n. Etym: [NL. praecipitatum: cf. F. précipité. ](Chem. )
Defn: 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. Red precipitate (Old. Chem ), 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. -- White precipitate (Old Chem. ) (a ) A heavy white amorphous powder (NH2.HgCl ) obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride or corrosive sublimate; -- formerly called also infusible white precipitate, and now amido-mercuric chloride. (b ) 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.
PRECIPITATE
Pre *cip "i *tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Precipitated; p. pr. & vb. n.Precipitating. ]
1. To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height. She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river. W. Irving.
2. To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict. Back to his sight precipitates her steps. Glover. If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous. Bacon.
3. (Chem. )
Defn: To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol. The light vapor of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold. W. Irving.
PRECIPITATE
PRECIPITATE Pre *cip "i *tate, v. i.
1. To dash or fall headlong. [R.] So many fathom down precipitating. Shak.
2. To hasten without preparation. [R.]
3. (Chem. )
Defn: To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.
PRECIPITATELY
PRECIPITATELY Pre *cip "i *tate *ly, adv.
Defn: In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
New American Oxford Dictionary
precipitate
pre cip i tate ▶verb |priˈsipəˌtāt prəˈsɪpəˌteɪt | [ with obj. ] 1 cause (an event or situation, typically one that is bad or undesirable ) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely: the incident precipitated a political crisis. • cause to move suddenly and with force: suddenly the ladder broke, precipitating them down into a heap. • (precipitate someone /something into ) send someone or something suddenly into a particular state or condition: they were precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared. 2 Chemistry cause (a substance ) to be deposited in solid form from a solution. • cause (drops of moisture or particles of dust ) to be deposited from the atmosphere or from a vapor or suspension. ▶adjective |priˈsipətət prɪˈsɪpɪtət |done, made, or acting suddenly or without careful consideration: I must apologize for my staff —their actions were precipitate. • (of an event or situation ) occurring suddenly or abruptly: a precipitate decline in cultural literacy. ▶noun |priˈsipətət, -əˌtāt prɪˈsɪpɪtət |Chemistry a substance precipitated from a solution. [from modern Latin praecipitatum. ] DERIVATIVES pre cip i ta ble |priˈsipətəbəl |adjective, pre cip i tate ly |priˈsipətətlē |adverb, pre cip i tate ness |priˈsipətətnəs |noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin praecipitat- ‘thrown headlong, ’ from the verb praecipitare, from praeceps, praecip (it )- ‘headlong, ’ from prae ‘before ’ + caput ‘head. ’ The original sense of the verb was ‘hurl down, send violently ’; hence ‘cause to move rapidly, ’ which gave rise to sense 1 (early 17th cent ). usage: The adjectives precipitate and precipitous are sometimes confused. Precipitate means ‘sudden, hasty ’: a precipitate decision | the fugitive's precipitate flight. Precipitous means ‘steep ’: the precipitous slope of the mountain | a precipitous decline in stock prices.
Oxford Dictionary
precipitate
pre ¦cipi |tate ▶verb |prɪˈsɪpɪteɪt | [ with obj. ] 1 cause (an event or situation, typically one that is undesirable ) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely: the incident precipitated a political crisis. • [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] cause to move suddenly and with force: suddenly the ladder broke, precipitating them down into a heap. • (precipitate someone /thing into ) send someone or something suddenly into a particular state or condition: they were precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared. 2 Chemistry cause (a substance ) to be deposited in solid form from a solution. • cause (drops of moisture or particles of dust ) to be deposited from the atmosphere or from a vapour or suspension. ▶adjective |prɪˈsɪpɪtət |done, made, or acting suddenly or without careful consideration: I must apologize for my staff —their actions were precipitate. • occurring suddenly or abruptly: a precipitate decline in Labour fortunes. ▶noun |prɪˈsɪpɪtət, -teɪt |Chemistry a substance precipitated from a solution. DERIVATIVES precipitable |prɪˈsɪpɪtəb (ə )l |adjective, precipitately |prɪˈsɪpɪtətli |adverb, precipitateness noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Latin praecipitat- ‘thrown headlong ’, from the verb praecipitare, from praeceps, praecip (it )- ‘headlong ’, from prae ‘before ’ + caput ‘head ’. The original sense of the verb was ‘hurl down, send violently ’; hence ‘cause to move rapidly ’, which gave rise to sense 1 (early 17th cent. ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
precipitate
precipitate verb 1 the incident precipitated a crisis: bring about /on, cause, lead to, give rise to, instigate, trigger, spark, touch off, provoke, hasten, accelerate, expedite. 2 they were precipitated down the mountain: hurl, catapult, throw, plunge, launch, fling, propel. ▶adjective 1 their actions were precipitate: hasty, overhasty, rash, hurried, rushed; impetuous, impulsive, spur-of-the-moment, precipitous, incautious, imprudent, injudicious, ill-advised, reckless, harum-scarum; informal previous; literary temerarious. 2 a precipitate decline. See precipitous (sense 2 ).
Oxford Thesaurus
precipitate
precipitate verb 1 the incident precipitated a political crisis: bring about, bring on, cause, lead to, occasion, give rise to, trigger, spark, touch off, provoke, hasten, accelerate, expedite, speed up, advance, quicken, push forward, further, instigate, induce. 2 the crampon failed, precipitating them both down the mountain: hurl, catapult, throw, plunge, launch, project, fling, cast, heave, propel. ▶adjective 1 we should not make precipitate cuts to our conventional forces: hasty, overhasty, rash, hurried, rushed; impetuous, impulsive, spur-of-the-moment, precipitous, incautious, imprudent, injudicious, ill-advised, heedless, reckless, hare-brained, foolhardy; informal harum-scarum, previous; rare temerarious. 2 a precipitate decline in the party's fortunes. See precipitous (sense 2 ). CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD precipitate, headlong, impetuous, impulsive See impetuous . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
precipitate
pre cip i tate /prɪsɪ́pɪtèɪt /動詞 他動詞 1 ｟かたく ｠〈事態 行為 人などが 〉〈通例良くない結果 状態 〉を (いやおうなく )招く, 促す, 早める .2 ｟かたく ｠〈人など 〉を (真っ逆さまに )突き落とす ; 〖～ oneself 〗 «…に » いきなり身を投じる «into » .3 〘化 〙…を沈殿させる (out ).4 〘気象 〙〈水蒸気 〉を凝結させて (雨 雪 露として )降らす .自動詞 1 〘化 〙沈殿する (out ).2 〘気象 〙降水する ; (雨 雪 露として )降る .3 ｟かたく ｠真っ逆さまに落ちる .名詞 /-tət, -tèɪt C U /1 〘化 〙沈殿物 .2 〘気象 〙凝結した水分, 凝結物 〘雨 雪 露など 〙.形容詞 /-tət, -tèɪt 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗/1 ｟かたく けなして ｠せっかちな, 拙速な ; むこうみずな 〈行動 決断 人など 〉.2 真っ逆さまの, まっしぐらの .～ly 副詞
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