Infuse vs Implant - What's the difference?
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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
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
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.
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.
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)- One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
- Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
- infusing him with self and vain conceit
- That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
- 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?
- (Francis Bacon)
- That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .