What's the difference between dunk and immerse?

Dunk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (2) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
  • (3) If you raise the floor of a basketball court by just a few inches, you will see many more slam dunks."
  • (4) 3.02am BST Heat 38-42 Spurs, 5:20, second quarter And Ginobili steals on the next possession, hey here's something good, he gets the ball into Tony Parker's capable hands and the point guard hits a two-pointer, Lewis misses a jumper on the other end and Duncan turns a Diaw steal into a dunk and now it's Miami's turn to take a time out.
  • (5) They can’t be charged with obstructing official business, since (according to the prosecutor) they did indeed cooperate with the investigation an tell the truth during the formal investigation.” The “best bet” would be obstruction of justice, he said, based on their initial false statements, but “that only works if they made the false statement with the purpose of hindering the discovery of a crime.” “There is an argument that their initial statements were made with that purpose,” he said, “though I don’t think it’s a slam dunk.” Since the officers cooperated with the formal investigation, Simmons said it’s unlikely Deters would want to present an aggressive case to the grand jury, as “it is always difficult to get police officers to testify against their fellow officers and it looks like these two did tell the truth when it really mattered.” Meanwhile, it emerged on Friday that Tensing was seeking reinstatement on the UC police force through his union.
  • (6) The Slam Dunk Contest, sorry the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest disappointed for the second year in a row.
  • (7) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
  • (8) Meanwhile, the Rising Stars game somehow featured less defense than the All-Star Game, Usain Bolt, despite the pregame hype, faltered in the Celebrity All-Star Game after an early dunk and nobody cares, or ever will care, about Shooting Stars or the Skills Challenge, sorry the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, not even the winners.
  • (9) A fast break dunk by Iguodala with 5:12 left in the third extended the Warriors’ lead to 61-51.
  • (10) Then Tiago Spillter dunks and the Spurs bench applauds in response.
  • (11) 1.41am BST Indiana Pacers 12-6 Miami Heat - 7:05 remaining, 1st Quarter And David West makes um two straight dunks and that will quiet the Miami crowd real good, a good time for a Heat timeout which they take.
  • (12) 3.01am BST Spurs 58-34 Heat, 5:52 remaining, 2nd quarter Chris Bosh makes a dunk, I love Chris Bosh.
  • (13) • Oh and I suppose the Dunk of the Week should rightfully go to this year's Slam Dunk Contest winner Terrence Ross.
  • (14) Judging by the slapdash nature of the marking at that set piece, Hughton’s side were missing the customarily commanding presence of the suspended Lewis Dunk at the heart of their defence.
  • (15) Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is supremely confident that reviving the sitcom Arrested Development, which was made available globally online last night in a single 15-episode junkie-pleasing hit, will be the latest "slam dunk" in the video streaming service's mission to revolutionise the TV industry.
  • (16) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
  • (17) In addition to the prerequisite leaping ability, long-term success in "playing above the rim" requires experience, exceptional physical agility, and the mental discipline to anticipate and avoid slam-dunk opportunities with high risk for personal injury.
  • (18) On the contrary, if Obama doesn't deliver a "slam dunk" on Tuesday, we'll see another round of liberal hand-wringing and conservative victory laps.
  • (19) Mario Chalmers dunks, Duncan dunks and LeBron finally hits his first shot of the game, with a jumper.
  • (20) Paul George had the Dunk of the Year Facebook Twitter Pinterest No we're not going to argue about this, Indiana Pacers guard Paul George had the Dunk of the Year.

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.