precipitateとは

別の表記

• præcipitate (廃れた用法)

語源 1

From Latin praecipitatus, from Latin praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”), from prae (“before”) + caput (“head”).

発音

Verb:

• (Received 発音, 米国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/

Adjective:

• (Received 発音, 米国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/

common but often proscribed:

• (Received 発音, 米国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/

動詞

precipitate (三人称単数 現在形 precipitates, 現在分詞 precipitating, 過去形および過去分詞形 precipitated)

1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.

   to precipitate a journey, or a conflict

   • Glover

     Back to his sight precipitates her steps.

   • Francis Bacon

     If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.

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

     She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.

3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
4. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

   Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.

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.

   It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.

7. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
   • Washington Irving

     The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.

同意語

• headlong

派生語

関連する語

• precipice
• precipitation

形容詞

precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)

1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
   • Prior

     Precipitate the furious torrent flows.

2. Very steep; precipitous.
3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
4. Moving with excessive speed or haste.

   The king was too precipitate in declaring war.

   a precipitate case of disease

5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.

派生語

• precipitately
• precipitateness

語源 2

From New Latin praecipitatum.

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/
• (Received 発音, 米国用法) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/, /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/

名詞

precipitate (複数形 precipitates)

1. a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
2. (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution

関連する語

• precipitous

Further reading

• precipitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• precipitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• precipitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Peripatetic, peripatetic