Difference between headlong and precipitant
Definitions
adverb
- with the head foremost
- in a hasty and foolhardy manner
- at breakneck speed
adjective
- with the head foremost
- excessively quick
Examples
The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong (Ps 2: 4; Job 5: 12, 13).
Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets:
Definitions
adjective
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
Examples
Most reported interventions have begun with assessment of seizure precipitants, looking particularly for emotionally based triggers for seizures.
Cognitive models focus on maladaptive or biased thought processes, whereas interpersonal models focus on social difficulties and stressful interpersonal environments as precipitants of psychopathology.
Nitric oxide, nitrates, and sulfa-containing drugs are the most frequent precipitants of clinically important methemoglobinemia.
