Infiltrate vs Immerse - What's the difference?
infiltrate | immerse |
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
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
As verbs the difference between infiltrate and immerse
is that infiltrate is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access while immerse is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.As an adjective immerse is
immersed; buried; sunk.infiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
Derived terms
* infiltration * infiltrative * infiltrator ----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.