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Immersed vs Trapped - What's the difference?

immersed | trapped |

As verbs the difference between immersed and trapped

is that immersed is (immerse) while trapped is (trap).

As an adjective trapped is

caught in a trap.

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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    trapped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (trap)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • caught in a trap