precipitate vs reflex

precipitate

verb
  • To fall headlong. 

  • 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. 

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. 

reflex

verb
  • To bend back or turn back over itself. 

  • To respond to a stimulus. 

noun
  • The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant. 

  • The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language. 

  • The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth. 

  • An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. 

  • Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. 

adj
  • Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees. 

  • Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture. 

  • Produced automatically by a stimulus. 

  • Bent, turned back or reflected. 

How often have the words precipitate and reflex occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )