What's the difference between engulf and submerge?

Engulf


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
  • (2) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (3) As we follow him into the limb-fitting area he is engulfed by prosthetists and doctors.
  • (4) However, following the management turmoil that engulfed the BBC in the autumn as it struggled to deal with the Savile scandal, there have been calls for the role to be reinstated.
  • (5) In the more superficial cell layers, the electron dense bodies were engulfed by vacuoles that gradually increased in number and size to fill the cytoplasm and, finally, destroyed the most superficial cells.
  • (6) In most cases, this resulted in the glial engulfment of the presynaptic partner, leaving the postsynaptic differentiation free (FPSD).
  • (7) Karol Mets had moved back from midfield to take Klavan’s position and it was tempting to wonder whether England’s night would be engulfed in frustration when Chambers picked out Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the six-yard area and the substitute could not get a clean contact on his header.
  • (8) Autolysosomes engulfing ER were occasionally densely labeled, especially in rat hepatocytes previously treated with leupeptin in vivo, suggesting that the autophagosome-autolysosome system may be an important route for degradation of PDI.
  • (9) Sporulating cells of Bacillus sphaericus 9602 containing fully engulfed forespores at different stages of maturity were broken by ultrasonic disruption, followed by grinding with alumina.
  • (10) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
  • (11) Schwann cells "engulf" degenerating axon terminals and eventually replace them in the primary clefts.
  • (12) Vanna Mendaleni is a middle aged Greek woman who until now has not had vehement feelings about the crisis that has engulfed her country.
  • (13) A defect of engulfing neutral latex particles and S. aureus by granulocytes was demonstrated in children who had both parents with asthma.
  • (14) Today, like every Saturday, Alfie Haaland will be engulfed by regret and resentment.
  • (15) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
  • (16) When Black regained consciousness, he made his way down the length of the plane and tried to free the pilot from his seat as flames began to engulf the fuselage.
  • (17) But these are only the latest of the clashes and atrocities that have engulfed Libya since Nato's "liberation": including bombings, assassinations, the kidnapping of the prime minister, the seizure of oil terminals by warlords, the explusion of 40,000 mainly black Libyans from their homes, and the killing of 46 protesters on the streets of Tripoli in one incident — ignored by the states that supposedly went to war to protect civilians.
  • (18) At such a level, global warming could run out of control, deserts would take over in southern Africa, Australia and the western US, and sea level rises could engulf small island states.
  • (19) In 68 patients with atopic asthma the ability of the granulocytes from the marrow tissue and vascular pools to engulf neutral latex particles and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria was studied.
  • (20) Fibrin-collagen paste induced less inflammation with numerous monocytes and macrophages with engulfed material.

Submerge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put under water; to plunge.
  • (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
  • (v. i.) To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
  • (2) The mycelium of Trichoderma viride grown in the dark under submerged conditions and transferred to membrane filters sporulated only after photoinduction.
  • (3) The units for submerged horizontal gel electrophoresis are easily made or are inexpensively available commercially.
  • (4) The submerged gauze technique was applied to the sampling in three different spots of the river: at the town center, two km water above, and two down-stream from the city.
  • (5) Two series were started with the cylinders being submerged at intervals of 5 and 40 min after the start of polymerisation.
  • (6) Eight of the nine clinically submerged defects exhibited positive radiographic changes.
  • (7) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
  • (8) A cultivation system has been developed for Penicillium urticae which yields 'microcycle' conidiation in submerged culture.
  • (9) The dominant leg was submerged in water at 10 C for 30 minutes.
  • (10) The first invagination occurs at an early developmental stage when non-differentiated anterior part of the larval body submerges into the external cyst which is formed by the walls of the primary cavity displaced toward the hind end.
  • (11) The effect of somatostatin-14 (SS-14) on gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission in the dorsolateral septal nucleus (DLSN) was investigated using a submerged slice preparation and intracellular recording techniques.
  • (12) Moreover, the luminal surface of the mucosa is not submerged, but is air-filled, thus obtaining the physiological conditions closer to the one of the trachea in vivo.
  • (13) The optimal methods were the following: storage of Micromonospora on agarized media under a layer of vaseline oil, storage of Micromonospora in the form of a mature submerged culture on liquid media optimal for its growth and development.
  • (14) Frozen 4-5-microns sections were submerged and floated carefully during each working step.
  • (15) Furthermore, since only few of an individual's characteristics are used as classifying attributes, individuals themselves become submerged in the class, and their individuality lost in the scientific laws that arise therefrom.
  • (16) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
  • (17) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
  • (18) In particular, in submerged culture on a plastic surface they either produced very small aggregates or did not aggregate, one of the phenotypes exhibited by the activated rasD transformants.
  • (19) Mixed venous PO2 increased during abdomen submergence, and PVCO2, was unaltered throughout.
  • (20) Here a climate that increases in temperature will mean more extreme and frequent storms, more flooding, rising seas that submerge Pacific islands.