Dissolve vs Submerge - What's the difference?
dissolve | submerge |
To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
To destroy, make disappear
To liquify, melt into a fluid
* Shakespeare
To be melted, changed into a fluid
(chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
(chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
* Shakespeare
To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
* Fairfax
* The Declaration of Independence
(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
(cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
To resolve itself as by dissolution
(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
* Tennyson
* Bible, Daniel v. 16
To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
* Dryden
(cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
To sink out of sight.
To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
To be engulfed in or with something.
In transitive terms the difference between dissolve and submerge
is that dissolve is to break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate while submerge is to be engulfed in or with something.In intransitive terms the difference between dissolve and submerge
is that dissolve is to resolve itself as by dissolution while submerge is to sink out of sight.As a noun dissolve
is a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.dissolve
English
(dissolution)Verb
(dissolv)- ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
- as if the world were all dissolved to tears
- Nothing can dissolve us.
- Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
- For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
- to dissolve an injunction
- dissolved the mystery
- Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
- Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.
Synonyms
* melt * (cinematography) fade outDerived terms
* dissolvable * dissolverAntonyms
* (terminate a union of multiple members actively) establish, foundSee also
* meltNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fade outsubmerge
English
Verb
(submerg)- The submarine submerged in the water.
- In films many people are murdered by being submerged in a swimming pool.
- Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
