Emerge vs. Immerse — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emerge and Immerse
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Emerge
To move out or away from a surrounding fluid, covering, or shelter
Seals emerging from the water.
Animals emerging from the forest.
Immerse
Dip or submerge in a liquid
Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes
Emerge
To come into view
The house emerged in the fog.
Immerse
Involve oneself deeply in a particular activity
She immersed herself in her work
She was still immersed in her thoughts
Emerge
To become conscious
Emerge from sleep.
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Immerse
To cover completely in a liquid; submerge.
Emerge
To become known or prominent after being in obscurity
Evidence that emerged from the investigation.
New leaders that emerged from the party ranks.
Immerse
To baptize by submerging in water.
Emerge
To come into existence
A period when many new life forms emerged.
Immerse
To engage wholly or deeply; absorb
Scholars who immerse themselves in their subjects.
Emerge
(intransitive) To come into view.
Immerse
(transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
Emerge
To come out of a situation, object or a liquid.
He emerged unscathed from the accident.
The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.
The submarine emerged from the ocean.
Immerse
(transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
Emerge
(intransitive) To become known.
Gradually the truth emerged.
Immerse
To map into an immersion.
Emerge
Alternative spelling of emerg
Immerse
(obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
Emerge
To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.
Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society.
Immerse
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
Emerge
Come out into view, as from concealment;
Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office
Immerse
To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave.
More than a mile immersed within the wood.
Emerge
Come out of;
Water issued from the hole in the wall
The words seemed to come out by themselves
Immerse
To baptize by immersion.
Emerge
Become known or apparent;
Some nice results emerged from the study
Immerse
To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.
The queen immersed in such a trance.
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this.
Emerge
Come up to the surface of or rise;
He felt new emotions emerge
Immerse
Thrust or throw into;
Immerse yourself in hot water
Emerge
Happen or occur as a result of something
Immerse
Engross (oneself) fully;
He immersed himself into his studies
Immerse
Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing;
The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Immerse
Cause to be immersed;
The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text
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