inoculate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

   “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.”

2. fiil To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
3. fiil To add one substance to another.

   “The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.”

4. fiil To graft by inserting buds.

   “to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another”

5. fiil To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).

   “to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity”

6. isim Synonym of inoculum.