different between precipitate vs forlorn
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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forlorn
English
Etymology
From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forl?osan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusan? (“to lose”), equivalent to for- +? lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??l??n/, /f??-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???l??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Hyphenation: for?lorn
Adjective
forlorn (comparative forlorner or more forlorn, superlative forlornest or most forlorn)
- Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
- Miserable, as when lonely after being abandoned.
- Synonym: forsaken
- Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.
Alternative forms
- forlorne (obsolete)
Derived terms
- forlornling
- forlornness
- forlornly
Related terms
- forlorn hope
- lovelorn
Translations
Noun
forlorn (plural forlorns) (military)
- A forlorn hope.
- A member of a forlorn hope.
Verb
forlorn
- (obsolete) past participle of forlese.
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