erect vs precipitate

erect

adj
  • Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. 

  • Having an erect penis. 

  • Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. 

  • Watchful; alert. 

  • Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. 

verb
  • To animate; to encourage; to cheer. 

  • To spin up and align to vertical. 

  • To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. 

  • To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. 

  • To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. 

  • To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. 

  • To enter a state of physiological erection. 

  • To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.). 

  • To cause to stand up or out. 

  • To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc. 

precipitate

adj
  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly. 

  • Very steep; precipitous. 

noun
  • a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution 

  • a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action 

verb
  • To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To throw an object or person from a great height. 

  • To act too hastily; to be precipitous. 

  • To send violently into a certain state or condition. 

  • To make something happen suddenly and quickly. 

  • To come out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. 

  • To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. 

  • To fall headlong. 

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