What's the difference between demerge and immerse?
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.
Immerse
Definition:
(a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
(v. t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
(v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
(v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
(2) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
(3) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(4) Clinical use of this instrument is no more difficult than conventional immersion ultrasonography.
(5) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(6) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(7) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(8) Immersion-fixed tissue was found to be inferior to perfusion-fixed tissue for immunocytochemical staining of this serum protein.
(9) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(10) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
(11) The inactivation of exogenous and neural norepinephrine (NE) by helical strips of rat tail artery was studied with a combination of the techniques of transmural stimulation and oil immersion.
(12) The immersion did not influence the state of ventilation and gas exchange at rest, diminished significantly the functional capabilities of external respiration.
(13) We measured closing volume (CV), expiratory reserve volume (ERV) regional distribution of lung volume (Vr) and perfusion in 7 normal subjects in air and during immersion to the neck in water.
(14) Immersion of polymer membranes blended with the thrombin inhibitor in phosphate-buffered saline for 10 d resulted in the loss of nonthrombogenicity, while the polymer membranes grafted with the thrombin inhibitor derivative maintained the nonthrombogenicity over a long period.
(15) With few exceptions, there is no alteration in cellular morphology if the brain is refrigerated after death, and fixed by immersion within 3 hours.
(16) It was observed that during the cold immersion the linear regression coefficients between the heart rate and the Q-S2T in the supine position as well as between the heart rate and the LVET, Q-S2T and the PEP in the head-up position were greater than the regression coefficients used in the rate correction.
(17) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(18) During immersion the renal excretion of calcium and magnesium also grew, especially in the evening and at night.
(19) Steady-state responses obtained after the 3rd h of immersion in never-immersed (NI) penguins were compared with those of penguins acclimatized to seawater temperature (A).
(20) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.