What's the difference between sank and submerge?

Sank


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sink.
  • () of Sink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
  • (2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
  • (3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
  • (4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
  • (5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
  • (6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
  • (7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
  • (8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
  • (9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
  • (10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
  • (11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
  • (12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
  • (13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
  • (14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
  • (15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
  • (16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
  • (17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
  • (18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
  • (19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
  • (20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.

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.