The difference between Precipitate and Slow

When used as nouns, precipitate means a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action, whereas slow means someone who is slow.

When used as verbs, precipitate means to make something happen suddenly and quickly, whereas slow means to make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly.

When used as adjectives, precipitate means headlong, whereas slow means taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action.

Slow is also adverb with the meaning: slowly.

check bellow for the other definitions of Precipitate and Slow

  1. Precipitate as a verb (transitive):

    To make something happen suddenly and quickly.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: advance accelerate hastspeed up"

    "to precipitate a journey, or a conflict"

    "it precipitated their success"

  2. Precipitate as a verb (transitive):

    To throw an object or person from a great height.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: throw fling cast Thesaurus:throw"

  3. Precipitate as a verb (transitive):

    To send violently into a certain state or condition.

    Examples:

    "we were precipitated into a conflict"

  4. Precipitate as a verb (intransitive, chemistry):

    To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

    Examples:

    "Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate."

  5. Precipitate as a verb (transitive, chemistry):

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

  6. Precipitate as a verb (intransitive, meteorology):

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

    Examples:

    "troponyms rain snow hail"

    "It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow."

  7. Precipitate as a verb (transitive):

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

  1. Precipitate as an adjective:

    headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

  2. Precipitate as an adjective:

    Very steep; precipitous.

  3. Precipitate as an adjective:

    With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

  4. Precipitate as an adjective:

    Moving with excessive speed or haste.

    Examples:

    "The king was too precipitate in declaring war."

    "a precipitate case of disease"

  5. Precipitate as an adjective:

    Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

  1. Precipitate as a noun:

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

  2. Precipitate as a noun (chemistry):

    a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution

  1. Slow as an adjective:

    Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

    Examples:

    "a slow train; a slow computer"

  2. Slow as an adjective:

    Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.

  3. Slow as an adjective:

    Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.

  4. Slow as an adjective:

    Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.

  5. Slow as an adjective (of a [[clock]] or the like):

    Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

    Examples:

    "That clock is slow."

  6. Slow as an adjective:

    Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.

  7. Slow as an adjective (of a period of time):

    Not busy; lacking activity.

    Examples:

    "It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier."

    "I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon."

  1. Slow as a verb (transitive):

    To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

  2. Slow as a verb (transitive):

    To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.

  3. Slow as a verb (intransitive):

    To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

  1. Slow as a noun:

    Someone who is slow; a sluggard.

  2. Slow as a noun (music):

    A slow song.

  1. Slow as an adverb:

    Slowly.

    Examples:

    "That clock is running slow."

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