Pronunciations (6)
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/ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/
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/ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
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/ɪˈnɒkjulɪt/
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/ɪˈnɑːkjulɪt/
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- General-American
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ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt
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ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt
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Verb
To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
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But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox.
The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
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Her upbringing overseas inoculated her against prejudice.
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This made it possible for them to enjoy the media without personally changing their views in ways that they believed it changed the views of others. In a sense, they believed that their religion inoculated them against the media's negative effects.
Lenihan insisted that, given their history both as a former colony and a net exporter of people round the world, the Irish were better inoculated against racism and xenophobia than other EU nations[…]
To add one substance to another.
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The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
To graft by inserting buds.
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to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
to inoculate a tree
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And in Aprill figtreen inoculate
To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
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to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
You ſhould not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot ſo e[n]oculat our old ſtock, but vve ſhall reliſh of it, I loued you not.
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The Church tries to inoculate humanity with the imaginary goodness drawn down from a fabulous heaven, and from a priest-manufactured God.
Noun
Synonym of inoculum.
Verb
introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of
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My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs
introduce a microorganism into
perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
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We vaccinate against scarlet fever
The nurse vaccinated the children in the school
insert a bud for propagation
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impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
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