Inoculation - English meaning

noun

A device for increasing electrical voltage or signal strength.

Usage examples:

Antenna boosters help to strengthen the signal between a cell tower and your phone.

noun

The action of making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.

Usage examples:

We recommend influenza immunization for all employees

noun

The process of protecting a person or animal from an infectious disease by putting a substance into the body that makes it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease)

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Mass/routine immunization, immunization gives people the ability to resist infection temporarily or…

noun

An instance of injecting or being injected.

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Painkilling injections

noun

The act of using a needle to put a drug into a person's body

Usage examples:

[ c ] an insulin injection, [ u ] vaccines given by injection

noun

The act of putting new energy or money into something in order to help it succeed

Usage examples:

The investment bank needed a cash injection of about $3bn.

verb

Poke roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed.

Usage examples:

She jabbed him in his ribs

noun

A quick, sharp blow, especially with the fist.

Usage examples:

A jab in the stomach

verb

Poke or thrust abruptly

noun

The firing of a gun or cannon.

Usage examples:

Mulder killed him with a single shot

adjective

Past and past participle of shoot.

noun

A bill or one's share of it, especially in a pub or bar.

Usage examples:

He had paid her shot

noun

Treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; inoculation.

Usage examples:

Vaccination against yellow fever is essential

noun

The process or an act of giving someone a vaccine (= a substance put into a person's body to prevent them getting a disease)

Usage examples:

All the children were given two vaccinations against measles., flu vaccination is not recommended f…

noun

A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

Usage examples:

There is no vaccine against the virus

noun

A special substance that you take into your body to prevent a disease, and that often contains a weakened or dead form of the disease-causing organism

Usage examples:

Our children have been vaccinated for measles and other childhood diseases., most states require al…