Immerse vs Lobby - What's the difference?
immerse | lobby |
To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
To involve deeply
(mathematics)
* 2002 , Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
(obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
* Francis Bacon
An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
(video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
(nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
(transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
* 2002 , (Jim Hightower), in
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, title= (informal) scouse (from lobscouse)
* My mam cooked us lobby for tea last night.
As a verb immerse
is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.As an adjective immerse
is (obsolete) immersed; buried; sunk.As a noun lobby is
lobby (class or group of people who try to lobby or influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists).immerse
English
Verb
(immers)- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed " in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.
Synonyms
* submergeDerived terms
* immersion * immersiveAdjective
(en adjective)- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
lobby
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *(term), from , from (etyl) or (etyl).Noun
(lobbies)- I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.
- The influence of the tobacco lobby has decreased considerably in the US.
Derived terms
* gun lobbyVerb
(en-verb)- For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.
- The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
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