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anticipate
English
Etymology
From Latin anticip?tus, perfect passive participle of anticip?re (“anticipate”); from ante (“before”), + capere (“take”). See capable.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æn?t?s.?.pe?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /æn?t?s.?.pe?t/
Verb
anticipate (third-person singular simple present anticipates, present participle anticipating, simple past and past participle anticipated)
- (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
- c. 1824 (written, published in 1891) Robert Hall, Fragment on Popery
- When two parties, each formidable for their numbers, and the weight of their influence and property, are animated by an equal degree of zeal, it is natural to anticipate the final success of that which possesses the most inherent strength.
- Synonym: preclude
- c. 1824 (written, published in 1891) Robert Hall, Fragment on Popery
- to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
- to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
- Synonyms: expect, foretaste, foresee
- to eagerly wait for (something)
- Synonym: look forward to
Usage notes
The words anticipate and expect both regard some future event as likely to take place. Nowadays they are often used interchangeably although anticipate is associated with acting because of an expectation: e.g. "skilled sportsmen anticipate the action and position themselves accordingly".
Related terms
- anticipation
- anticipatory
Translations
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /antit?si?pate/
Verb
anticipate
- present adverbial passive participle of anticipi
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /antit?si?pate/
Verb
anticipate
- adverbial present passive participle of anticipar
Italian
Verb
anticipate
- second-person plural present indicative of anticipare
- second-person plural imperative of anticipare
- feminine plural of anticipato
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /an.ti.ki?pa?.te/, [än?t??k??pä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /an.ti.t??i?pa.te/, [?n?t?it??i?p??t??]
Verb
anticip?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of anticip?
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precipitate
English
Alternative forms
- præcipitate (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Latin praecipitatus, from praecipit? (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”), from prae (“before”) + caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Adjective:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?t?t/, /p???s?p?t?t/
common but often proscribed:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Verb
precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- Synonyms: advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up
- 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas Book 4
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Ambition
- if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- Synonyms: throw, fling, cast; see also Thesaurus:throw
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- Troponyms: rain, snow, hail
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
Synonyms
- headlong
Derived terms
Related terms
- precipice
- precipitation
Translations
Adjective
precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous
- Very steep; precipitous.
- Synonym: brant
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, rash; see also Thesaurus:reckless
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
Derived terms
- precipitately
- precipitateness
Translations
Etymology 2
From New Latin praecipitatum. Doublet of precipitato.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?t?t/, /p???s?p?t?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Noun
precipitate (plural precipitates)
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 381]:
- As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 381]:
- (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
Translations
Related terms
- precipitous
Further reading
- precipitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- precipitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- precipitate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Peripatetic, peripatetic
Italian
Adjective
precipitate f pl
- feminine plural of precipitato
Verb 1
precipitate
- second-person plural present of precipitare
- second-person plural imperative of precipitare
Verb 2
precipitate f pl
- feminine plural past participle of precipitare
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