What's the difference between demerge and demerse?
Demerge
Definition:
(v. t.) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The demerger of Cadbury Schweppes was his brainchild – spinning off Schweppes as a separate US drinks business – and it is hard to argue with his claims that it has proved successful.
(2) News Corp's share price rose by 8% on Tuesday following confirmation that the split was being considered, giving investors who have long hoped for a sell-off of News Corp's newspaper titles hope that their stock would rise further upon the demerger.
(3) Rupert Murdoch has chosen News International's top technology executive to set News Corporation's global strategy for digital publishing and to manage the technical end of the demerger of the media company into two separately listed businesses.
(4) After years of speculation, National Australia Bank announced the demerger of the two banks and exit from the UK banking industry on Thursday.
(5) Biffa was demerged from Severn Trent last September at 260p a share.
(6) Murdoch had hoped the promotion, which would return him to pole position to take over from his father and to run the TV business when News Corp demerges it from its newspapers next year, would have been announced in July.
(7) Discussing the tricky Velcro-parting of the organisation Thurley used the dreaded D-word – "Demerging" – and I was able to snap at him in turn: "That isn't a word!"
(8) Rupert Murdoch is expected to give further details this week of the top management and structure of News Corporation's demerged publishing division to be headed by Robert Thomson.
(9) It said investors’ returns over the three-year period amounted to £21bn in share price increase, dividends and value created by the demerger of Reckitt’s pharmaceutical division, now known as Indivior.
(10) A spokesman for Kingfisher said the £242m anticipated headline cost of the demerger was "a worst case scenario".
(11) He took my remonstrance in good part, but the sad thing is that "demerging" is not only a word, it's exactly the right sort of term to apply to the English heritage industry, which, whatever else we may wish to believe about it, is potentially big business, and therefore subject entirely to the same calculus of profit as our other formerly public services.
(12) Demergers are usually tax-free and we expect Kingfisher to successfully appeal against the French tax authorities."
(13) The demerger of the bank was a milestone for NAB, which first revealed the CYBG’s £450m PPI charge when it published its own results earlier this month.
(14) City shareholders hope that Thiam will boost the value of the company by demerging Prudential's fast-growing Asian operation, or selling the British business, possibly to Clive Cowdery, whose company Resolution Life merged with Pearl Assurance.
(15) It is understood that the new publishing venture could have as much as $3bn in cash, depending on the final details of the demerger from News Corp's Fox TV and film businesses, when it is split off this summer.
(16) The restructure includes a demerger of Adani Ports and Adani Power.
(17) When Condron took over as managing director in 1994 he started the firm's expansion into the US with the $665m acquisition of Yellow Book before readying the company for a demerger from parent BT.
(18) Kingfisher revealed that it expected the final bill for advisers on the demerger process to be £60m.
(19) Since it introduced the accounts, competition has heated up in the market, with Tesco recently launching an account, TSB releasing a new deal following its demerger from Lloyds, and Marks & Spencer overhauling its range.
(20) His epithet for Thurley's outfit is "English Heretics", and he sees the demerging of English Heritage as the beginning of the rampant commercialisation of our historic sites.
Demerse
Definition:
(v. t.) To immerse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general a correlation exists between fish that lack or have small M-cells and a demersal habitat.
(2) The major water-soluble arsenic compound was isolated from the muscle of shortnose dogfish Squalus brevirostris and of starspotted shark Mustelus manazo, both of which are demersal sharks.
(3) Ciguateric fishes (mainly demersal reef fishes) cause a range of distressing and often debilitating gastrointestinal neurological and cardiovascular disturbances.
(4) It is suggested to differ: 1) common secondary transformation, when secondary flattening (for example, in birds) or secondary specialization (for example, in fish demersal roe) embraces the whole epithelium of the follicle.
(5) Surveys of demersal fishes and macrofaunal invertebrates in the North Atlantic indicate 1) there is little evidence of coherence and continuity of faunal zones around the ocean basin and 2) that the community concept should be abandoned because faunal assemblages only persist on a local scale.
(6) In contrast, white muscle from demersal species was unstained for the same enzymes and was devoid of mitochondria.
(7) Yolk proteins of prematuration occytes and postmaturation eggs were compared by SDS gel electrophoresis in several teleosts, including freshwater species that produce demersal eggs, estuarine and marine species with demersal eggs, and marine species with pelagic eggs.
(8) Analysis of gut contents indicates that during the day piper feed primarily on copepods, and terrestrial insects trapped on the water surface; after dark the demersal zooplankton which enter the water column form the major dietary component.
(9) Histochemical profiles and capillarisation data of the red and white muscle were compared to those of less active demersal species.
(10) Contrasting environmental conditions during embryogenesis of these two species may be reflected by the thin membrane and simple lamellar structure in the pelagic egg of the starry flounder, and the thick membrane and complex lamellar structure in the demersal egg of the pink salmon.
(11) When released into seawater, spermatozeugmata retain their structural integrity for varying periods (up to 24 hours) and become demersally distributed in still water.
(12) When gut samples were examined, the incidence was highest in demersal fish (cod and flatfish) as compared with pelagic fish (herring).