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INOCULATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "inoculate" is one way to...):

impregnate (fertilize and cause to grow)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insert a bud for propagation

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "inoculate" is one way to...):

propagate (cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation

Example:

The nurse vaccinated the children in the school

Synonyms:

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "inoculate" is one way to...):

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

inoculant (a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease)

inoculating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)

inoculation (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)

inoculator (a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Introduce a microorganism into

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "inoculate" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inoculate"):

seed (inoculate with microorganisms)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of

Example:

My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "inoculate" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

A method to determine microbial susceptibility to antibiotics in which filter paper disks containing known concentrations of antibiotics are placed on the agar surface that has been previously inoculated with the bacteria of interest.

(Disk Diffusion Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A potency unit for measuring infectious activity of a biologic product or infectious agent preparation equal to a base-10 logarithm of amount of product or agent preparation that causes infection in the 50% of the cell culture-containing vessels inoculated with that dilution of infectious material in the product potency assay or pathogen activity assay.

(Log10 50 Percent Cell Culture Infective Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

A potency unit for measuring infectious activity of a biologic product or infectious agent preparation equal to a base-10 logarithm of amount of product or agent preparation that causes infection in the 50% of the tissue culture-containing flasks inoculated with that dilution of infectious material in the product potency assay or pathogen activity assay.

(Log10 50 Percent Tissue Culture Infective Dose, NCI Thesaurus)