inoculate
pronunciation
How to pronounce inoculate in British English:
UK [ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt]
How to pronounce inoculate in American English:
US [ɪˈnɑkjuleɪt]
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- Verb:
- introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of
- introduce a micro-organism into
- perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
- insert a bud for propagation
- impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
Word Origin
- inoculate
- inoculate: [15] Far-fetched as the connection may seem, inoculate actually comes ultimately from Latin oculus ‘eye’ (source of English ocular [16] and oculist [17]). By metaphorical extension oculus was applied to the ‘bud’ of a plant (much like the eye of a potato in English), and the verb inoculāre was coined to denote the grafting on of a bud or other plan part.That was how it was used when originally adopted into English (‘Peaches have their Season at May Kalends them to inoculate’, Palladius on Husbandry 1440), and the modern sense ‘introduce antigens into the body’ did not emerge before the early 18th century, based on the notion of ‘engrafting’ or ‘implanting’ an immunising virus into a person. It was originally used with reference to smallpox.=> eye, ferocious, ocular
- inoculate (v.)
- mid-15c., "implant a bud into a plant," from Latin inoculatus, past participle of inoculare "graft in, implant," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + oculus "bud," originally "eye" (see eye (n.)). Meaning "implant germs of a disease to produce immunity" first recorded (in inoculation) 1714, originally in reference to smallpox. After 1799, often used in sense of "to vaccine inoculate." Related: Inoculated; inoculating.
Example
- 1. Brac and the government jointly ran a huge programme to inoculate every bangladeshi against tuberculosis .
- 2. This optimism was increased by the fact that the russians would cynically inoculate the prisoners against diseases such as cholera and typhus .
- 3. Chinese antitrust officials asserted that the pfizer / wyeth combination would control half of the domestic market for mycoplasma hyopneumoniae ( mh ) vaccines , used to inoculate pigs .
- 4. There are many people in this world who will inoculate themselves against all kinds of diseases and avoid many forms of pleasure and risk , all because it may bring them death .
- 5. Whether or not people living in cities could just inoculate themselves with ointments of gammaproteobacteria-for example by spreading a bacteria-laced lotion on their skin or consuming a probiotic beverage teeming with gammaproteobacteria-as a substitute for natural exposure remains to be seen , he says .