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inoculate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/iˈnäkyəˌlāt/,
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inoculated, past tense; inoculated, past participle; inoculating, present participle; inoculates, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Treat (a person or animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease
    • - he inoculated his tenants against smallpox
  2. Introduce (an infective agent) into an organism
    • - it can be inoculated into laboratory animals
  3. Introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium


  1. introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"
  2. introduce a microorganism into
  3. immunize: perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
  4. insert a bud for propagation
  5. impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
  6. (inoculating) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating"
  7. Inoculation is the placement of something that will grow or reproduce, and is most commonly used in respect of the introduction of a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into the body of a human or animal, especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease. ...
  8. (inoculation) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease; The introduction of a microorganism into a culture medium; An inoculum, what is inoculated
  9. (Inoculation) The instillation, either accidental or deliberate, of micro‑organisms into body tissues, or into a culture medium.
  10. (Inoculation) Introduction of material (usually a vaccine) into the tissues.
  11. (Inoculation) introduction of a disease agent into a healthy person in order to cause a mild form of the disease and create immunity.
  12. (INOCULATION) Introducing beneficial bacteria to legumes to ensure the formation of high-nitrogen nodules on their roots.
  13. (INOCULATION) The act of exposing someone to a disease. In medicine, this is usually done with a weakened form of a disease to generate immunity from a more injurious occurrence. ...
  14. (Inoculation) A process of adding some material to molten metal in the ladle for the purpose of controlling the structure to an extent not possible by control of chemical analysis and other normal variables.
  15. (Inoculation) Adding yeast to juice to start fermentation.
  16. (Inoculation) Vaccination, injection, shot.
  17. (inoculation) Techniques used to make people's belief systems resistant to counter persuasion.
  18. (inoculation) The addition of a material to molten metal to form nuclei for crystallization. See also inoculant.
  19. (inoculation) The insertion of a bud of one plant under the bark of another in order to propagate the bud on the stock plant.
  20. (inoculation) mixing seed (usually clover seed) with the appropriate rhizobia bacteria.
  21. (inoculation) the arrival or transfer of a pathogen onto a host
  22. (inoculation) the artificial introduction of micro-organisms (often rhizobia or mycorrhizae) into a habitat to initiate the symbiosis in crop and pasture legumes.
  23. (Inoculations) While most governments do not vaccinations (other than Yellow Fever), general principles I  recommend that travelers secure some of the readily-available vaccinations such as: Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Meningitis, and Tetanus.
  24. An inoculation is a form of vaccine.  In ancient China, immunity to Smallpox was acheived by blowing dust from Smallpox scabs into the patient's nose.
  25. To introduce a seed culture into a system, such as with the addition of ALKEN CLEAR-FLO® cultures.