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Immersed vs Soaked - What's the difference?

immersed | soaked |

As verbs the difference between immersed and soaked

is that immersed is (immerse) while soaked is (soak).

As an adjective soaked is

drenched with water, or other liquid.

immersed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (immerse)

    • Anagrams

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    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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    soaked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (soak)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Drenched with water, or other liquid.