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Dipping vs Immerse - What's the difference?

dipping | immerse |

As verbs the difference between dipping and immerse

is that dipping is while immerse is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.

As a noun dipping

is an act or process of immersing.

As an adjective immerse is

(obsolete) immersed; buried; sunk.

dipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or process of immersing.
  • The act of inclining downward.
  • The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
  • The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
  • (US) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.

    • 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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