inoculate
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English inoculate, from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”), from in (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”).
Verb [edit]
inoculate (third-person singular simple present inoculates, present participle inoculating, simple past and past participle inoculated)
- (transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- (transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
- To add one substance to another. To spike
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
- To graft by inserting buds.
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See also [edit]
Translations [edit]
to provide immunity
to add one substance to another
External links [edit]
- inoculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- inoculate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Italian [edit]
Verb [edit]
inoculate
- second-person plural present indicative of inoculare
- second-person plural imperative of inoculare
- Feminine plural of inoculato
Anagrams [edit]
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
inoculāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of inoculō
