Immerse vs Baptism - What's the difference?
immerse | baptism |
To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
To involve deeply
(mathematics)
* 2002 , Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
(obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
* Francis Bacon
The Bible Baptist Christian personal ordinance in which one is submerged in water.
The Christian sacrament in which one is anointed with or submerged in water and sometimes given a name.
A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
As a verb immerse
is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.As an adjective immerse
is immersed; buried; sunk.As a noun baptism is
the Bible Baptist Christian personal ordinance in which one is submerged in water.immerse
English
Verb
(immers)- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- 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
* submergeDerived terms
* immersion * immersiveAdjective
(en adjective)- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.