PRECIPITATE
PRONUNCIATION: (verb: pri-SIP-i-tayt; noun, adjective: pri-SIP-i-tit/tayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To make something, especially something undesirable, happen prematurely or suddenly.
2. To throw suddenly.
3. To cause (water vapor in the atmosphere) to condense and fall as rain, snow, hail, etc.
4. To cause a solid substance to be separated from a solution.
verb intr.: 1. To separate from a solution as a solid.
2. To condense from water vapor in the atmosphere and fall as rain, snow, hail, etc.
adjective: 1. Headlong; hasty; rash; abrupt.
2. Happening unexpectedly.
noun: 1. A solid separated from a solution.
2. Moisture condensed as rain, snow, hail, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin praecipitare (to cast down headlong), from prae- (before) + caput (head). Earliest documented use: 1528.
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PRECAPITATE - before the enumeration (before the heads were counted)
PRECUPITATE - before Cupid shot his arrow
PRECHIPITATE - when computers used vacuum tubes
