English Dictionary

inoculate

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/

動詞

他動詞 広義 比喩的用法

(transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

日本語の意味

ワクチンや抗原を体内に投与し、免疫を獲得させる（予防接種を実施する） / 特定の病気に対する免疫を誘導するために、ワクチンなどを注入する

The public health team will inoculate residents in remote villages to prevent the outbreak from spreading.

公衆衛生チームは発生の拡大を防ぐため、遠隔地の住民すべてに予防接種を行います。

意味（1）

(transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

意味（2）

1722, John Crawford, The Case of Inoculating the Small-pox Consider'd: And Its Advantages Asserted; in a Review of Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter. Wherein Every Thing that Author Has Advanced Against It, is Fully Confuted: and Inoculation Proved a Safe, Beneficial, and Laudable Practice.:

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

(transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.

意味（5）

To add one substance to another.

The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.

意味（6）

To graft by inserting buds.

to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another

意味（7）

(figuratively) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).

to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity

inoculates （ present singular third-person ）

inoculating （ participle present ）

inoculated （ participle past ）

inoculated （ past ）