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Precautions
- noun - a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.; "he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution"; "an insurance policy is a good safeguard"; "we let our guard down"
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- the trait of practicing caution in advance
Precautious
- - Taking or using precaution; precautionary.
Precedences
- noun - preceding in time
- status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
- the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
Precedented
- adjective - having or supported or justified by a precedent
Precedently
- - Beforehand; antecedently.
Precellency
- - Excellence; superiority.
Preceptress
- - A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
Precessions
- noun - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
Precipitant
- adjective - an agent that causes a precipitate to form
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
Precipitate
- adjective - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
- bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
- hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles