immersionn.
/ɪˈməːʃən/ The action of immerging or immersing.
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a. Dipping or plunging into water or other liquid, and transferred into other things.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > [noun]
immersionc1450
dunking1933
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > plunging
immersionc1450
plunging?1507
immersement1828
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > dipping or plunging into liquid
submersion?a1425
dippingc1440
indippinga1564
ducking1581
diving1614
immersion1658
plout1705
souse1793
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1407 Thas whilk in watire takes duwe immersionne.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Immersion, a dipping, ducking, or plunging in.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 123 After immersion thereof into the vessel of Quicksilver.
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 86 Holding the Soul of Man to be a Spiritual Immaterial substance..[they accounted for its]..failures and defects..from its Immersion into, and intimate conjunction with matter.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 221. ⁋5 The Doctor..gives her Two or Three total Emersions in the Cold Bath.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 116 Being checked at intervals by a bodily immersion in the softer and deeper snow.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 876 Immersion in warm or cold water.
1885 Cent. Mag. 29 744/1 The Monitor, with only twelve feet immersion, could take any position.
b. The administration of Christian baptism by the dipping or plunging of the whole person in water: distinguished from affusion or aspersion.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > by immersion > [noun]
bathc885
plunginga1398
immersiona1631
tinction1657
mersion1659
immersionism1845
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 105 In Baptisme we are sunk under water, and then raised above the water againe; which was the manner of baptizing in the Christian Church, by immersion, and not by aspersion, till of late times.
1751 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. I. 281 [It] requires of the Bishops and Presbyters that they should make use of a threefold immersion in baptism, under pain of being deposed.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 114 The immersion of seven Baptists in a pool.
1852 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (ed. 6) (at cited word) Immersion is the mode of baptizing first prescribed in our office of public baptism.
c. Alchemy. Reduction of a metal in some solvent.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > miscellaneous other processes
englutingc1386
fermentationc1386
conjunctionc1400
cibation1471
separation1471
wheel1471
putrefactiona1550
termination1584
martyrization1612
restinction1617
illinition1678
immersion1683
interfection1727
1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at To Calcine, in Fleta Minor ii There are other ways of Calcination especially of Metals; viz. by..Immersion.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Immersion,..the putting Metals or Minerals, into some Corrosive, that they may be reduced to a Calx.
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d. Ceramics. The application of the glaze to pottery by dipping it into a vessel filled with the glaze-cream.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. Absorption in some condition, action, interest, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun]
intendance1390
intentionc1400
intensiona1619
absorption1640
immersion1647
preoccupation1788
concentration1823
engrossment1838
self-condensation1841
enchainment1849
submergence1872
immersal1901
absorbency1974
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with > deeply
immersion1647
immersal1901
1647 H. More Philos. Poems To Rdr. 7/1 Others, whom sensuall immersion or the deadnesse of Melancholy have more deeply seiz'd upon.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 213 Immersion in vice and ignorance.
1837 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. VI. l. 795 Napoleon clearly perceived that Austria was about to take advantage of his immersion in the Penninsular War.
b. A method or system of teaching (or learning) a foreign language in an environment where all communication is conducted in the language, esp. at a school, etc., run for this purpose. Frequently attributive, as immersion course, immersion school. Chiefly North American.
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching
demonstration1742
bear-leading1766
royal road1793
tachydidaxy1846
object teaching1851
object system1862
methodic1864
community education1873
methodics1883
maieutics1885
type-system1901
direct method1904
spoon-feeding1905
play method1914
playway1914
project method1916
active learning1919
study skills1924
skit1926
free activity1929
hypnopaedia1932
sleep-teaching1932
chalk and talk1937
show-and-tell1941
demo1945
naming of (the) parts1946
team teaching1949
teleteaching1953
programming1954
audio-lingualism1961
immersion1965
dem1968
open learning1970
suggestopaedia1970
suggestopedy1970
distance learning1972
fast-tracking1972
paideia1982
tutorial1984
m-learning2001
society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching
scholastical?a1475
scholastic1483
maieutic1656
maieutical1678
demonstrative1805
peripatetic1890
free activity1929
hypnopaedic1932
show-and-tell1945
audio-active1958
programmed1958
audio-lingual1959
mother tongue1960
immersion1965
distance-based1979
1965 New Statesman 19 Nov. 811/1 (advt.) Berlitz ‘total immersion’ courses. Berlitz ‘immersion’ courses. The 4–6 week ‘Blitz’ courses for busy international executives.
1966 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 25 Oct. tm190 The Berlitz Schools of Languages of America... Berlitz Total Immersion for educational service of classroom instruction in foreign languages. First use Aug. 10, 1964.
1972 Time 13 Nov. 35/2 I've been taking immersion courses in French, you know. Some of my friends say what I really need is an immersion course in English.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Aug. 9/5 In cautioning against putting too much emphasis on early French immersion for the majority of children, the report says such programs may harm children with learning difficulties.
1976 Maclean's 1 Nov. 21/1 In Winnipeg,..Ecole Sacre-Coeur, the city's largest immersion school, recorded a jump in enrollment from 334 to 560 students between 1974 and 1975.
1982 Eng. World-wide 3 i. 50 The term ‘second language immersion’ describes such programmes in circumstances where pupils with the same linguistic and cultural background experience a home-school language switch, which is the case of Hong Kong students in E[nglish]-m[edium] schools.
1986 Toronto Star 28 May d1/1 (advt.) Lovely bungalow on super large lot. Walk to French immersion & all schools.
3. Astronomy. The disappearance of a celestial body behind another or in its shadow, as in an occultation or eclipse: opposed to emersion.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse
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clipse1377
obscurationa1550
defect1571
superation1585
travail1593
occultation1601
deliquium1648
immersion1690
incidence1728
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 818 The greatest..Immersion of the Moon into the Shadow does not then happen.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) The Immersion of a Star (in Astron.), is when it approaches so near the Sun, as to lie hid in its Beams.
1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. v. 111 If it is the apparent Time of an Immersion, or Emersion, that is observed.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 131 I observed two immersions of Jupiter's satellites.
1971 Nature 17 Dec. 406/1 None of the light curves showed any signs of an atmosphere on Io: in all cases the curves were flat just before and after occultation with abrupt changes in intensity at immersion and emersion.
4. Microscopy. The introduction of a liquid, as water or oil, between the object-glass and the object.
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1875 [see immersion lens n. at Compounds 1c]. 1877 [see immersion fluid n. at Compounds 1c].
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C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
immersion bath n.
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1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 60 Where external treatment is carried out..by simple hot immersion baths.
b. (In sense 1b.)
immersion robe n.
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1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 28 As he arose from the water his face was radiant, and when he had removed his immersion robe, his eyes filled with happy tears.
c. (In sense 4.)
immersion fluid n.
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1877 Athenæum 3 Nov. 569/3 Dr. Edmonds gave a description of his new Immersion Paraboloid, and explained its use..salts of lead in glycerine being specially recommended as the immersion fluid.
immersion lens n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Immersion-lens, an achromatic objective for the microscope, which is used with a drop of water between the front lens and the glass cover of the object examined, to prevent the extreme refraction of the luminous pencils if air is present.
immersion objective n.
immersion paraboloid n.
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1877Immersion paraboloid [see immersion fluid n.].
immersion system n.
C2. (In sense 1.)
immersion foot n. a condition similar to trench foot caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to wet and usually cold conditions.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disorders of extremities > of the foot
foot evil1562
buniona1718
onion1785
Madura foot1855
fallen arch1858
claw-foot1862
foot-drop1886
tarsalgia1890
Morton's metatarsalgia1891
fallen instep1904
Madura disease1904
trench foot1915
maduromycosis1916
drop-foot1921
immersion foot1941
1941 Lancet 6 Dec. 690/1 I have never seen a case of immersion-foot, and for its adequate description we must await the reports of those whose war experience has brought them greater opportunities of observing it.
1967 New Scientist 25 May 449/3 In the Pacific during the second World War a warm water variety of immersion foot was common.
1969 J. McM. Mennell Foot Pain v. 104 Immersion foot is similar to trench foot, but the wet environment seems to be more important than the cold; it may occur with relatively warm immersion.
immersion heater n. a heater (usually electric) whose element may be immersed in the liquid to be heated; esp. one having a thermostatic control and designed to be fixed inside a domestic hot-water cylinder.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > for heating water
water heater1824
water bar1843
geyser1878
chip heater1900
immersion heater1914
instantaneous (water-)heater1935
back-boiler1939
fridge-heater1957
1914 M. Lancaster Electr. Cooking, Heating, Cleaning 208 The water in cylinder A..is heated by the immersion heater B.
1914 M. Lancaster Electr. Cooking, Heating, Cleaning 209 An additional immersion heater could be fitted, current for which would pass through the meter...to be switched on if at any time the demand for hot water were much beyond the ordinary requirements. This auxiliary immersion heater could be controlled automatically by a thermostat..switch.
1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 455 The lubricating oil being kept at a temperature by immersion heaters in the oil tanks.
1936 Archit. Rev. 80 p. lxii/3 In many parts of the country..automatically controlled immersion heaters are being fitted as auxiliary heaters to fuel fired boilers.
1944 T. A. Longmore Med. Photogr. 140 The immersion heater is an electrically heated poker or element which is placed in the developer to raise its temperature and is withdrawn before the solution is put to its normal use.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. (1956) 76/1 Portable immersion heaters and boiling rings.
1958 House & Garden Mar. 70/2 The Agamatic also provides hot water—in the summer an immersion heater takes over.
1963 Times 8 Jan. 5/5 Mrs. Henderson told him that she decided not to have a bath, left the immersion heater on, and went to bed.
immersion suit n. a garment designed to give the wearer buoyancy when in the water and to provide insulation from the cold.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun]
playsuit1609
romper1902
romper suit1904
diving-suit1908
bunting1914
teddy bear1917
leotard1920
Sidcot1921
sleeper1921
romper1922
pressure suit1923
boiler suit1928
maillot1928
mono1937
footy1938
all-in-one1939
siren suit1939
goonskin1943
anti-g suit1945
G-suit1945
jump suit1948
immersion suit1951
moon suit1953
poopy suit1953
dry suit1955
wetsuit1955
sleepsuit1958
Babygro1959
tank suit1959
cat-suit1960
penguin suit1961
unitard1961
bodysuit1963
shortall1966
steamer1982
1951 R. H. Davis Deep Diving (ed. 5) i. xiv. 275 Immersion suits can be worn..to protect the escaper from the cold, and..to keep him afloat.
1968 New Scientist 15 Feb. 348/1 The immersion suit consists essentially of a double-layer rubber suit which can be inflated... Not only does this provide flotation but also excellent insulation.
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immersion hypothermia n. Medicine hypothermia caused by immersion in cold water, characterized by rapid loss of heat from the body.
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1947 E. Wayburn in Arch. Internal Med. 79 77 The purpose of this article is to describe a clinical syndrome, herein to be called ‘immersion hypothermia’, which is the result of immersion in the sea in latitudes where the temperature of the water is below approximately 65 F.
1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Feb. 413/3 There are at least three common types [of hypothermia]: firstly, ‘immersion’ hypothermia, where the cold stress is greater than the maximum heat production of the body.
2014 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 29/1 Surgeon Rear-Admiral Frank Golden..unravelled many of the mysteries surrounding immersion hypothermia.
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