precipitate vs supine

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. 

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. 

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

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

supine

adj
  • Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping. 

  • Lying on its back. 

  • turned facing toward the body; with the thumb outward or the big toe upward. 

  • Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something. 

noun
  • In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle. 

  • In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses. 

  • (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive. 

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