immersion

[ US /ˌɪˈmɝʒən/ ]
[ UK /ɪmˈɜːʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
  2. the act of wetting something by submerging it
  3. sinking until covered completely with water
  4. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
  5. complete attention; intense mental effort
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How To Use immersion In A Sentence

  • Despite their superficial similarity, submersion of minorities in English-only programs in the USA and Canadian immersion programs are different and they lead to different results.
  • Use immersion blender or cappuccino machine steam attachment to froth the carrot foam mixture.
  • And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
  • Froth sauce using a hand-held immersion blender and drizzle foam atop ravioli.
  • Further, with this requirement Japanese Baptists had to loosen the requirement of believer's baptism by immersion and tolerate various other baptismal traditions.
  • My matriculation at F. & M. was characterised by total immersion in "extracurricular" activities. Hank Duckman
  • Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel! Sketches — Volume 05
  • Over the last thirty years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of dual language or two-way immersion programs.
  • In biological experiments, especially during darkroom operation, slide glass is sometimes crashed by oil immersion objective.
  • First, if the outside air temperature is dramatically different to that of the water the tank is cooled on immersion and the air volume is reduced within it.
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