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To inoculate someone is to put a weak or safe form of a disease into their body, usually with a needle, so the body learns to fight the real disease later. Everyday English more often says vaccinate, or give a shot / a jab; inoculate sounds more like a doctor’s word. Though actually, the old method of inoculation could use a little of the real disease, which was dangerous; today’s shots are a safer idea with the same purpose. In a science lab, inoculate has another life: you inoculate a dish when you put a little of a into it so the can grow. The very old garden meaning was different again: to put a bud of one plant into another.
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組成From Latin inoculare, first “to graft”: in- (into) + oculus (an eye, also a plant bud). English took it in as “to graft,” then used it for putting disease material into the body. The ending -ate makes the verb.
同家族的字
- inoculationthe noun for the act or the treatment
- ocularboth from Latin oculus, “eye” — in this word the “eye” was first a plant bud
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inoculateverb詞源 1/ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/
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immunologymedicinesciencesTo introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox.
- 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.
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To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
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To add one substance to another.
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
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To graft by inserting buds.
- to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
- to inoculate a tree
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To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
- to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
- You ſhould not haue beleeu'd me, for vertue cannot ſo e[n]oculat our old ſtock, but vve ſhall reliſh of it, I loued you not.
inoculatenoun詞源 2/ɪˈnɒkjulɪt/
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Synonym of inoculum.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。