different between exorbitant vs precipitate

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin exorbit?ns, the present active participle of exorbit? (“I go out of the track”), from ex (“out”) + orbita (“wheel-track”); see orbit. Compare the French exorbitant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??b?t?nt/, /???z??b?t?nt/

Adjective

exorbitant (comparative more exorbitant, superlative most exorbitant)

1. Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin exorbit?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z??.bi.t??/

Adjective

exorbitant (feminine singular exorbitante, masculine plural exorbitants, feminine plural exorbitantes)

1. exorbitant
2. extortionate

Further reading

• “exorbitant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Late Latin exorbit?ns.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

exorbitant (comparative exorbitanter, superlative am exorbitantesten)

1. exorbitant

Declension

Synonyms

• maßlos
• unverschämt

Further reading

• “exorbitant” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French exorbitant, from Latin exorbitans.

Adjective

exorbitant m or n (feminine singular exorbitant?, masculine plural exorbitan?i, feminine and neuter plural exorbitante)

1. extortionate

Declension

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)

1. (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

2. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.

   Synonyms: throw, fling, cast; see also Thesaurus:throw
3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.

4. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

5. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
6. (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

7. (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.

8. (intransitive) To fall headlong.
9. (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)

1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

   Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous

2. Very steep; precipitous.

   Synonym: brant

3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

   Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, rash; see also Thesaurus:reckless

4. Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
5. 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)

1. 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.

2. (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

1. feminine plural of precipitato

Verb 1

precipitate

1. second-person plural present of precipitare
2. second-person plural imperative of precipitare

Verb 2

precipitate f pl

1. feminine plural past participle of precipitare