What's the difference between dip and immerse?

Dip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
  • (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
  • (v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
  • (v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  • (v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
  • (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
  • (v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
  • (v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
  • (v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
  • (v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
  • (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
  • (v. i.) To dip snuff.
  • (n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
  • (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
  • (n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
  • (n.) A dipped candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
  • (2) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (3) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (4) The dip-strip home cultures are an effective way for screening or follow-up of patients with bacteriuria.
  • (5) A further 26 herds (iiii) which did not employ iodine-containing teat-dips, were also studied.
  • (6) According to a survey by Deloitte of corporate finance officers, there is a danger of a "triple-dip recession" within the next two years, with companies cutting back rather than expanding.
  • (7) a digital processing (DIP) method for assessing bone mass was developed on the basis of image analysis of roentgenograms.
  • (8) The shares fell 45% on his watch, with an especially big dip coming after the Autonomy deal was announced.
  • (9) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
  • (10) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (11) Viable spleen cells collected 7 days after irradiation were totally unresponsive to mitogenic or antigenic stimulation regardless of Cu-DIPS or vehicle treatment, suggesting that Cu-DIPS did not prevent radiation-induced damage to mature lymphocytes.
  • (12) Demographic factors could also be behind any dip in applications.
  • (13) Total UK ad spend hit a previous high of £13.1bn in 2007 before dipping to £11.3bn in 2009 following the credit crunch and ensuing recession.
  • (14) Measles was diagnosed by isolation of measles virus by cell culture, direct immunoperoxidase (DIP), direct immunofluorescence (DIF) and ELISA.
  • (15) Aliquots of saliva from 50 schoolchildren and 51 adults were tested by the dip-slide method and by conventional plating methods in MSB agar.
  • (16) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
  • (17) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
  • (18) Real wages are falling, household incomes have dipped and GDP per person is still some way off its pre-downturn peak.
  • (19) This is clinically significant and offers new possibilities for treatment of the so-called "morning dip."
  • (20) DIP was shown to inhibit phosphodiesterase (PDE) from both platelets and bovine coronary arteries.

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.

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