A Quick and Simple Dictionary

precipitate

1. Verb.  (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
3. Verb.  (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
4. Verb.  (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
5. Verb.  (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
6. Verb.  (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.
7. Noun.  A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
8. Noun.  (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
9. Adjective.  headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
10. Adjective.  Very steep; precipitous.
11. Adjective.  With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
12. Adjective.  Moving with excessive speed or haste.
13. Adjective.  Performed very rapidly or abruptly.