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Precipitate
- adjective - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
- bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
- hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
Precipitins
- noun - an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen
Precipitous
- adjective - done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
Precocities
- noun - intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules
Precogitate
- - To cogitate beforehand.
Predicating
- verb - affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
Predication
- noun - (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
Predicative
- adjective - of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'"
Predicators
- noun - an expression that predicates