different between precipitate vs agile

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

English

Etymology

From earlier agil, borrowed from Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from ag? (“do, act; move”). See agent.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd??.a?l/, /?æd??.?l/
• ,
• Rhymes: -æd??l

Adjective

agile (comparative agiler or more agile, superlative agilest or most agile)

1. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move

   Synonym: nimble

   • 1902, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

     The man drew out paper and tobacco and twirled the one up in the other with surprising dexterity. He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.

2. Characterised by quick motion

3. (chiefly software engineering) Of or relating to agile software development, a technique for iterative and incremental development of software involving collaboration between teams.

   agile methods

Synonyms

• active, alert, nimble, brisk, lively, quick

Antonyms

• unagile

Derived terms

• agility

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Eliga, liage

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agilis (“swift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?il/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

agile (plural agiles)

1. nimble, agile (quick and light in movement or action)

Derived terms

• agilement
• agilité

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• aigle
• gelai

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a??i?l?]
• Hyphenation: agi?le

Adjective

agile

1. inflection of agil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin agilis (“agile, nimble”), from ag? (“do, act; move”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.d??i.le/

Adjective

agile (plural agili)

1. agile, nimble

Derived terms

• agilmente

Related terms

• agilità

Anagrams

• gelai
• legai

Further reading

• agile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

agile

1. nominative neuter singular of agilis
2. accusative neuter singular of agilis
3. vocative neuter singular of agilis

Scots

Etymology

From Latin agilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??il/

Adjective

agile (comparative mair agile, superlative maist agile)

1. agile

References

• “agile” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[2], 2016.