单词 | submerse |
释义 | submerseadj. Botany. Esp. of a plant: growing entirely underwater; = submerged adj. 2.rare before 20th cent. ΚΠ 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Demerse Leaf, in botany, growing below the surface of the water... The same explanation applies to submerse. 1906 H. G. Simmons Vascular Plants in Flora Ellesmereland 96 The plant does not flower in its northernmost stations..and becomes a more or less submerse water-plant. 1912 Bot. Gaz. 54 261 Barrett has greatly increased our knowledge of the cytology and especially the sexuality of the submerse chytrids. 1953 Science 3 July 10/1 Dissolved bicarbonate may also be an immediate source of carbon for submerse aquatic plants during photosynthesis. 2004 Jrnl. Coastal Conservation 10 27/2 Dramatic loss of submerse macrophytes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). submersev. transitive. To submerge (a person or thing); to drown (a person or animal). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > dip or plunge into liquid > cause to sink in a liquid senchOE asenchOE sinkc1175 drenchc1200 adrenchc1300 drenklea1325 submerse?a1425 drownc1465 submerge1490 sommerse1632 whelm1725 whemmel1824 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 53v Ouer þat, som beþ apperyng in which þe þing infixed is litel profounded; som beþ profounde in which þe þingz infixed beþ submersed or drowned [?c1425 Paris is vnderdrenchede; L. submergitur]. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 149 Þe fistule wasschen wiþ a spounge submersed in water of honye. 1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxii. 189 Who..was disfavoured, cursed, murthered, and after all submersed, and a great weight tied to his dead body, cast into the Sea. 1705 T. Woolston Old Apol. Truth Christian Relig. 243 Many of the Chariots of Licinius were overturn'd and submersed in the Sea. 1788 C. Kite Ess. on Recovery of Apparently Dead 29 All the air is violently expelled from the lungs the instant the animal is submersed. 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 344 [They] quietly submerse their memories in the waters of Lethe. 1845 Universalist Union 4 Jan. 118 It must still be proved that it [sc. the baptism of John] was performed by submersing the whole body underwater. 1908 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 10 48 Rigor can further be produced by submersing a muscle in water. 1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 1 When submersed it may have instead narrow ribbon-like leaves resembling those of Wild Celery. 1999 Wallpaper Nov. 263 I'm a bigger sucker for..submersing myself under a fondant of down and starched stiff cotton. 2010 E. Anderson Under Surge, under Siege i. 62 One particularly violent round of waves had submersed the trio. Derivatives subˈmersing n. [compare earlier submerging n. and submersion n.] ΚΠ 1899 T. D. Wilson Rep. Sec. Navy in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives 51st Congress, 1st Sess. No. 1. iii. ii. App. xiii. 510 She is a twin-screw armored vessel..fitted with submersing tanks, into which water is admitted when preparing for action. 1945 H. L. Harvill High-pressure Die Casting ii. 6/1 The hot chamber method includes as an integral feature the submersing of a metal injection chamber in the molten alloy. 2010 L. Davenport Last Ute Chief i. 8 Though hyena-pitch laughter always followed the submersing of a player, they were quickly helped out of the creek. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1813v.?a1425 |
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