Word Study
submerging |
submerse |
submersed |
submersible |
submersible warship |
submersion
| submetallic
| subminister
| subministrant
| subministrate
| subministration
submersion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun submersion has 2 senses
- submersion(n = noun.event) immersion, submergence, submerging - sinking until covered completely with water; Array is a kind of sinking
- submersion(n = noun.act) dousing, ducking, immersion - the act of wetting something by submerging it; Array is a kind of wetting
has particulars: dip
Derived forms verb submerge1, verb submerse2, verb submerse1
Derived forms verb submerge3, verb submerse2
CIDE DICTIONARY
submersion, n. [L. submersio: cf. F. submersion.].
- The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being put under water or other fluid, or of being overflowed or drowned. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
submersion
absorbed attention, absorption, affusion, alluvion, alluvium, application, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, concentration, contemplation, dampening, damping, deep study, deep thought, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, displacement, dousing, draft, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engagement, engrossment, engulfment, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, intentness, inundation, involvement, irrigation, laving, meditation, moistening, monomania, obsession, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, rinsing, single-mindedness, sinkage, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, studiousness, study, submergence, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, washout, watering, wetting, whelmingROGET THESAURUS
submersion
Depth
N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.Insertion
N insertion, implantation, introduction, insinuation, planting injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement, inserted.
For further exploring for "submersion" in Webster Dictionary Online
