different between dipping vs immerse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?p??/

Verb

dipping

1. present participle of dip

Hyponyms

• double-dipping

Noun

dipping (plural dippings)

1. An act or process of immersing.
   • 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., The first and second volumes of Chronicles, “Henrie the second,” p. 82,^[1]

     […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]

   • 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London: for the author, Chapter 13, p. 110,^[2]

     By an infinite number of materials, I mean colours and shades of all kinds and degrees; some notion of which variety may be formed by supposing a piece of white silk by several dippings gradually dyed to a black; and carrying it in like manner through the prime tints of yellow, red, and blue; and then again, by making the like progress through all the mixtures that are to be made of these three original colours.

   • 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, London: Heinemann, Part One, Chapter 3, I, p. 11,

     Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him. Cyrus soon solved the problem. He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep.

2. The act of inclining downward.
3. The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
4. The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
5. (US) The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
6. (birdwatching) The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immerg?, from in + merg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??(?)s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Verb

immerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)

1. (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
   • 1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501:

     ... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases

   • 1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110:

     Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease.

   • 1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering

     The buoyant force of the atmospheric air on solids and liquids immersed in it is for most purposes negligible compared to the weight of solid or liquid, ...

   Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.

2. (transitive) To involve or engage deeply.

   The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.

3. (transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
   • 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)

     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

• submerge

Derived terms

• immersion
• immersive

Translations

Adjective

immerse (comparative more immerse, superlative most immerse)

1. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

Italian

Adjective

immerse f pl

1. feminine plural of immerso

Verb

immerse

1. third-person singular past historic of immergere
2. feminine plural past participle of immergere

Latin

Participle

immerse

1. vocative masculine singular of immersus