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precipitate 1, verb(dictionary)
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Tashkent (sh) and precipitate(1) (iou)


Tashkent (sh)




or Toshkent

City (pop., 1998 est.: 2,124,000), capital of Uzbekistan.

Dating from about the 1st century BC, it was an important trade centre on the caravan routes to Europe and East Asia. The Arabs conquered it in the early 8th century; it fell to the Mongols in the 13th century and was under Turkish control in the 14th-15th centuries. Taken by the Russians in 1865, it was made the administrative centre of Turkistan in 1867, and a new European city grew up beside the old native one. The city was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1966. Today it is the main economic and cultural centre of Central Asia. Its many institutions of higher Education include the Uzbek Academy of Sciences (1943).


precipitate(1) (iou)



precipitate adjective. E17.
[Latin praecipitatus pa. pple of praecipitare: see PRECIPITATE verb, -ATE2.]
Headlong; falling or descending steeply or vertically. E17.
J. S. Blackie And Dadaces..spear-struck fell Precipitate from his ship.
b. Very steep, precipitous. rare. E17.
Actuated by violent or sudden impulse; overhasty, hurried; rash, headstrong. E17.
J. Smeaton I was determined not to be precipitate in purchasing. W. Gerhardie Conscious of the danger of precipitate action. K. Moore Rather precipitate marriages did run in the family.
Rushing or driven along headlong; moving or moved with excessive haste or speed. M17.
Gibbon The General escaped by a precipitate flight. P. V. White They were all a little out of breath from precipitate arrival.
Performed or occurring very rapidly; very sudden or abrupt. M17.
W. S. Churchill Gladstone's precipitate conversion to Home Rule.
precipitately adverb M17.
precipitateness noun M17.