different between precipitate vs quicken
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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- what precipitate will form
quicken
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw?k?n/
- Rhymes: -?k?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English quikenen, equivalent to quick +? -en. Cognate Danish kvikne (“to quicken, revive”), Swedish kvickna (“to revive”), Icelandic kvikna (“to turn on, ignite”).
Verb
quicken (third-person singular simple present quickens, present participle quickening, simple past and past participle quickened)
- (transitive, literary) To give life to; to animate, make alive, revive. [from 14thc.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall quycken it.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures
- Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke XVII:
- (intransitive, literary) To come back to life, receive life. [from 14th c.]
- (intransitive) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. [from 16th c.]
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened.
- 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:
- (transitive) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up. [from 17thc.]
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
- 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p.47:
- (intransitive) To become faster. [from 17thc.]
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (shipbuilding) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.
Translations
Etymology 2
Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.
Noun
quicken (plural quickens)
- (now chiefly Northern England) The European rowan, Sorbus aucuparia. [from 15th c.]
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
- Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p, 104:
Synonyms
- quickbeam
See also
- quickens
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
quicken
- inflection of quick:
- strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- strong dative plural
- weak/mixed all-case plural
Old Dutch
Etymology
From quic +? -en.
Verb
quicken
- to come to life
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: quicken
Further reading
- “kwikken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
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