different between immersion vs dipping

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersi?, immersi?nem (“dipping”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m???n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??n

Noun

immersion (countable and uncountable, plural immersions)

1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
   1. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
      • 2016, Risto Uro, Ritual and Christian Beginnings, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 98:

        Jesus did not become known as a baptizer (cf. however John 3:26 and 4:1), but we can recognize the same ritual structure in his healing practice as in John's immersion.

   2. Deep engagement in something.
      • 2016, David Waugh, Sally Neaum, Rosemary Waugh, Children's Literature in Primary Schools (page 80)

        Recognising and knowing how to understand visual imagery in relation to a narrative in picture books is primarily a matter of immersion in books within a specific culture.

2. (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
3. (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
   • 2006, William F. Basener, Topology and Its Applications, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 82:

     Note that every embedding is an immersion, but the converse is not true. For an immersion to be an embedding, it must be one-to-one and the inverse must be continuous.

4. (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.

   Antonym: emersion

   • 2009, Steven Wepster, Between Theory and Observations, Springer Science (?ISBN), page 178:

     An occultation of a star by the moon provides two sharply defined observable phenomena: the disappearance of a star behind the disc of the moon (called its immersion), and its subsequent reappearance (or emersion).

5. (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
   • 2001, Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos, Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, Multilingual Matters (?ISBN), page 272:

     Although numerous studies have reported the effectiveness of immersion programmes in developing relatively high levels of second language proficiency without any tradeoff of first language development or subject matter mastery, little is known of immersion education in Japan.

Related terms

• immerse
• immersive

Translations

Further reading

• Immersion in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• immersion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “immersion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• semi-minor, semiminor

Finnish

Noun

immersion

1. Genitive singular form of immersio.

Anagrams

• seminormi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin immersi?, immersi?nem.

Noun

immersion f (plural immersions)

1. immersion
2. language immersion

Related terms

• immerger

Further reading

• “immersion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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.

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