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Immerse vs Baptism - What's the difference?

immerse | baptism |

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)
  • 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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    baptism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * baptismal * baptism for the dead, baptism by proxy * baptism of fire, baptism by fire * infantile baptism * vicarious baptism

    See also

    * dunking * godchild * goddaughter * godfather * godmother * godparent * godson * pedobaptism * sprinkling