precipitate vs running

precipitate

adj
  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • 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. 

running

adj
  • Moving or advancing at a run. 

  • Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem. 

  • Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. 

  • Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below). 

  • Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step. 

  • Present, current. 

  • Having a continuous design or pattern. 

  • Discharging snot or mucus. 

  • Flowing; easy; cursive. 

  • Discharging pus. 

noun
  • The act of running errands. 

  • That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation. 

  • The discharge from an ulcer or other sore. 

  • The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason. 

  • The action of the verb to run. 

prep
  • Approaching; about; roughly. 

adv
  • Consecutively; in a row. 

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