Inoculate
verb
To put a substance, such as a vaccine, into a person or animal to protect against disease.
The doctor inoculated the children against measles.
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- inoculate against
- inoculate with
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To introduce something, especially an idea or principle, to a person or group.
The goal of the training program is to inoculate a sense of responsibility among the employees.
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- inoculate against
- inoculate with
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In agriculture, to introduce a microorganism into a plant to help its growth.
The plants were inoculated with Rhizobium bacteria to promote nitrogen fixation.
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- inoculate with
- inoculate into
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Technical
verb
To put a substance, such as a vaccine, into a person or animal to protect against disease.
The doctor inoculated the children against measles.
Often appears as...
- inoculate against
- inoculate with
verb
To introduce something, especially an idea or principle, to a person or group.
The goal of the training program is to inoculate a sense of responsibility among the employees.
Often appears as...
- inoculate against
- inoculate with
verb
In agriculture, to introduce a microorganism into a plant to help its growth.
The plants were inoculated with Rhizobium bacteria to promote nitrogen fixation.
Often appears as...
- inoculate with
- inoculate into
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Often used by healthcare professionals when discussing vaccines and disease prevention.
Please visit the clinic to be inoculated before flu season starts.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Action
Emphasizes the action of safeguarding from diseases, particularly through vaccination.
Newborns are inoculated to protect them from certain infections.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Diseases
Can refer to protection against particular diseases; context usually specifies which.
Travelers were inoculated against yellow fever.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Often used by healthcare professionals when discussing vaccines and disease prevention.
Please visit the clinic to be inoculated before flu season starts.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Action
Emphasizes the action of safeguarding from diseases, particularly through vaccination.
Newborns are inoculated to protect them from certain infections.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Diseases
Can refer to protection against particular diseases; context usually specifies which.
Travelers were inoculated against yellow fever.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Often used by healthcare professionals when discussing vaccines and disease prevention.
Please visit the clinic to be inoculated before flu season starts.
Pro Tip 2/3Protective Action
Emphasizes the action of safeguarding from diseases, particularly through vaccination.
Newborns are inoculated to protect them from certain infections.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Diseases
Can refer to protection against particular diseases; context usually specifies which.
Travelers were inoculated against yellow fever.
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How we conquered the...
the eight-year-old son of his gardener. After a few days of fever and discomfort, the boy seemed to recover. Two months later, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete. His plan had worked.
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
actually spoke. And she came across a similar example of something that fascinated me as being something which, in a business context or a government context, would simply be so trivial a solution as to seem embarrassing. It was simply to encourage the inoculation of children
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Inside the bizarre world...
We have to try to understand it, because only by understanding it can we even start to inoculate ourselves against it. In my three years in this world, I got a few nasty phone calls, even some threats, but it wasn't a fraction of what female journalists get on this beat.
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Can you outsmart a troll...
will begin pushing false information to swing the election in his favor. Your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information before the election. One of the most effective ways to tackle disinformation is to encourage people to think about the strategies
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Falling in love is the...
and he was my first real love, and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him. So I turned to science. I researched everything I could find about the science of romantic love, and I think I was hoping that it might somehow inoculate me from heartache.
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How do vaccines work? -...
injected material from a cowpox virus into an eight-year-old boy with a hunch that this would provide the protection needed to save people from deadly outbreaks of the related smallpox virus. It was a success. The eight-year-old was inoculated against the disease
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
measures let's talk about vaccines russia has said this week that it has actually come out with a vaccine now that it's going to start actually um inoculating uh people with this what do you think about that do you think they've actually got this vaccine
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Rethinking infidelity...
then there is no need to go looking elsewhere, assuming that there is such a thing as a perfect marriage that will inoculate us against wanderlust. But what if passion has a finite shelf life?
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How to deal with...
powerless letting go of the wish for it to be different this is a big one for me because the wish for it to be different is very powerful it inoculate cyou to
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Where is cybercrime...
This is a collective and altruistic effort to stop the spread in its tracks and to inform anyone not infected how to protect or inoculate themselves.
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How we conquered the...
the eight-year-old son of his gardener. After a few days of fever and discomfort, the boy seemed to recover. Two months later, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed, and Jenner concluded that protection was complete. His plan had worked.
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
actually spoke. And she came across a similar example of something that fascinated me as being something which, in a business context or a government context, would simply be so trivial a solution as to seem embarrassing. It was simply to encourage the inoculation of children
Video examples
Inside the bizarre world...
We have to try to understand it, because only by understanding it can we even start to inoculate ourselves against it. In my three years in this world, I got a few nasty phone calls, even some threats, but it wasn't a fraction of what female journalists get on this beat.
Video examples
Can you outsmart a troll...
will begin pushing false information to swing the election in his favor. Your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information before the election. One of the most effective ways to tackle disinformation is to encourage people to think about the strategies
Video examples
Falling in love is the...
and he was my first real love, and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him. So I turned to science. I researched everything I could find about the science of romantic love, and I think I was hoping that it might somehow inoculate me from heartache.
Video examples
How do vaccines work? -...
injected material from a cowpox virus into an eight-year-old boy with a hunch that this would provide the protection needed to save people from deadly outbreaks of the related smallpox virus. It was a success. The eight-year-old was inoculated against the disease
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
measures let's talk about vaccines russia has said this week that it has actually come out with a vaccine now that it's going to start actually um inoculating uh people with this what do you think about that do you think they've actually got this vaccine
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
then there is no need to go looking elsewhere, assuming that there is such a thing as a perfect marriage that will inoculate us against wanderlust. But what if passion has a finite shelf life?
Video examples
How to deal with...
powerless letting go of the wish for it to be different this is a big one for me because the wish for it to be different is very powerful it inoculate cyou to
Video examples
Where is cybercrime...
This is a collective and altruistic effort to stop the spread in its tracks and to inform anyone not infected how to protect or inoculate themselves.
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Quote examples
Tony Harrison
English Poet
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.
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Rachel Simmons
American Author
For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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Jane Mayer
American Journalist
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.
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John Carmack
American Scientist
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
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Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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Maajid Nawaz
British Activist
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Sheri L. Dew
American Author
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
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Tony Harrison
English Poet
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.
Quote examples
Rachel Simmons
American Author
For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.
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Hillary Clinton
American Politician
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Quote examples
Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Quote examples
Jane Mayer
American Journalist
The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.
Quote examples
John Carmack
American Scientist
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
Quote examples
Alan K. Simpson
American Politician
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Quote examples
Maajid Nawaz
British Activist
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Quote examples
Sheri L. Dew
American Author
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
Quote examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
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