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Infuse vs Implant - What's the difference?

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Infuse is a related term of implant.


As verbs the difference between infuse and implant

is that infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill while implant is .

infuse

English

Verb

(infus)
  • To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
  • To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
  • * Coxe
  • One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
  • To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
  • * Shakespeare
  • Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
  • * Shakespeare
  • infusing him with self and vain conceit
  • To instill as a quality.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
  • To undergo infusion.
  • * Let it infuse for five minutes.
  • To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
  • * Denham
  • That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .

    References

    * 1902 Webster's International dictionary. * 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

    See also

    * fuse ----

    implant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
  • To insert (something) surgically into the body.
  • Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
  • Synonyms

    * (fix firmly or set securely or deeply ): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root * (insert (something) surgically into the body''): graft (''from another part of the body )

    Derived terms

    * implantable

    Noun

    (wikipedia implant) (en noun)
  • Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly (breast implant)s.
  • (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
  • Derived terms

    * (breast implant) (l)