Immerse vs Sodden - What's the difference?

immerse | sodden |

In transitive terms the difference between immerse and sodden

is that immerse is to involve deeply while sodden is to drench, soak or saturate.

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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sodden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

* 1810 , , Volume XII, 4th Edition, page 702,

It is found, indeed, that meat, roa?ted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ?odden than when coal is employed for that purpo?e.

* 1895 February, James Rodway, Nature's Triumph'', '' , page 460,

The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden .

* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]

A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

(figuratively) Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.

* 1857 , , 1899, Reprint Edition, page 60,

With this profession of faith, the doctor, who was an old jail-bird, and was more sodden than usual, and had the additional and unusual stimulus of money in his pocket, returned to his associate and chum in hoarseness, puffiness, redfacedness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy.

* 2010 , , The Cameron Delusion , page 79,

I would have done too, but alcohol makes me so ill that I couldn't (I mention this to make it clear that I don't claim any moral superiority over my more sodden colleagues).

Derived terms

* soddenly * soddenness

Verb

(en verb)

To drench, soak or saturate.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

To become soaked.