Immersion vs Engross - What's the difference?
immersion | engross |
the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
(British, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
(mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
(astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.
(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* De Quincey
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
To completely engage the attention of.
(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To amass.
* Shakespeare
As a noun immersion
is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.As a verb engross is
(senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.immersion
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(en noun)Anagrams
* ----engross
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(es)- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
- waves engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf