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Awash vs Immersed - What's the difference?

awash | immersed |

As an adjective awash

is washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc, when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

As a verb immersed is

(immerse).

awash

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
  • * 1904 , , The Sea-Wolf , ch. 39,
    • The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.
  • (by extension) Covered, overspread.
  • * 2005 , Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic , 26 Aug,
    • The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Bulgaria 0-3 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.}}

    immersed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (immerse)

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    immerse

    English

    Verb

    (immers)
  • To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
    • Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
  • To involve deeply
    • The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
  • (mathematics)
  • * 2002 , Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
    • Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed " in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.

    Synonyms

    * submerge

    Derived terms

    * immersion * immersive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
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