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Simmer vs Submit - What's the difference?

simmer | submit |

In lang=en terms the difference between simmer and submit

is that simmer is to cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point while submit is or to enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

As verbs the difference between simmer and submit

is that simmer is to cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point while submit is to yield or give way to another.

As a noun simmer

is the state or process of simmering.

simmer

English

Alternative forms

* simber (obsolete)

Noun

(-)
  • The state or process of simmering.
  • The kettle was kept on the simmer .

    Verb

  • To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
  • The soup simmered on the stove.
  • To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
  • Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.

    Synonyms

    * coddle

    Derived terms

    * simmer down

    Anagrams

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    submit

    English

    Verb

    (submitt)
  • To yield or give way to another.
  • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  • or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
  • I submit these plans for your approval.
  • * Macaulay
  • We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
  • (mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
  • * '>citation
  • "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
  • (obsolete) To let down; to lower.
  • * Dryden
  • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  • (obsolete) To put or place under.
  • * Chapman
  • The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter