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Immersion vs Soaking - What's the difference?

immersion | soaking |

As nouns the difference between immersion and soaking

is that immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed while soaking is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.

As a verb soaking is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective soaking is

extremely wet; saturated.

immersion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

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    soaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy , Chapter 2.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely wet; saturated.
    • 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre , Chapter 5.