dip vs immersion

immersion vs dip

dip and immersion both are nouns.

dip is a verb but immersion is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No
immersion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, immersion is a hypernym of dip; that is, immersion is a word with a broader meaning than dip:

dip: a brief immersion
immersion: sinking until covered completely with water

Other hypernyms of dip include submergence, submerging, submersion.

dip (noun)	immersion (noun)
a brief swim in water	a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms	the act of wetting something by submerging it
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow	complete attention; intense mental effort
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity	sinking until covered completely with water
a brief immersion	(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
a depression in an otherwise level surface

dip (verb)	immersion (verb)
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
go down momentarily
dip into a liquid while eating
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
immerse in a disinfectant solution
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
dip into a liquid
appear to move downward
slope downwards
lower briefly
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
take a small amount from

Difference between dip and immersion

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