pause vs precipitate

pause

verb
  • To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. 

  • To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. 

  • To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point. 

  • To interrupt an activity and wait. 

noun
  • A break or paragraph in writing. 

  • Hesitation; suspense; doubt. 

  • A short time for relaxing and doing something else. 

  • A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 

  • In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark. 

  • take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate 

  • A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest. 

precipitate

verb
  • To act too hastily; to be precipitous. 

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

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

  • 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. 

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

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

adj
  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly. 

  • Very steep; precipitous. 

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