Soaking vs Immerse - What's the difference?
soaking | immerse |
Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
Extremely wet; saturated.
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 soaking and immerse
is that soaking is while immerse is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.As adjectives the difference between soaking and immerse
is that soaking is extremely wet; saturated while immerse is (obsolete) immersed; buried; sunk.As a noun soaking
is immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.soaking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 1906' ''"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a '''soaking for our pains".'' — Horatio Alger, ''Joe the Hotel Boy ,
Chapter 2.
Adjective
(en adjective)- 1847' ''I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still '''soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 5.
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.