Absorb vs Submit - What's the difference?
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To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
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(obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
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To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
(transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as
# (physics) in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
# (physics) in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
# (physics) taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or in the pursuit of wealth.
To occupy or consume time.
Assimilate mentally.
(business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
To defray the costs.
To accept or purchase in quantity.
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
* '>citation
(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
In lang=en terms the difference between absorb and submit
is that absorb is to accept or purchase in quantity while submit is or to enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between absorb and submit
is that absorb is (obsolete) to engulf, as in water; to swallow up while submit is (obsolete) to put or place under.As verbs the difference between absorb and submit
is that absorb is to include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up while submit is to yield or give way to another.absorb
English
Verb
- Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
- The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion.
- Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
Synonyms
* (to include so that it no longer has separate existence) assimilate, engulf, incorporate, swallow up, overwhelm * (to suck up or drink in) draw, drink in, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, steep, take in, take up * (to consume completely) use up * (to occupy fully) engage, engross, immerse, monopolize, occupy * assume, bear, pay for to take inAntonyms
* emitDerived terms
* absorption * absorbable * absorbabilityReferences
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*See also
* adsorbsubmit
English
Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.