Immerse vs Indulge - What's the difference?
immerse | indulge |
To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
To involve deeply
(mathematics)
* 2002 , Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
(obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
* Francis Bacon
: To yield to a temptation or desire.
To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
* Atterbury
To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
In transitive terms the difference between immerse and indulge
is that immerse is to involve deeply while indulge is to satisfy the wishes or whims of.As an adjective immerse
is immersed; buried; sunk.immerse
English
Verb
(immers)- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- 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
* submergeDerived terms
* immersion * immersiveAdjective
(en adjective)- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
indulge
English
Verb
(indulg)- He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .
- I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
- Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.
- I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.
- Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
- to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
- persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners
- Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!