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Definitions: Immune |
ImmuneAdjective1. Relating to the condition of immunity; "the immune system". 2. Secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution". 3. Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection). 4. (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence; "immune to persuasion". Noun1. A person who is immune to a particular infection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immune" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | The pesticide composition is. . . the same, but its use tends to result in the development of an -- pest population. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Infection by a particle of one virus renders a cell -- or immune to reinfection or superinfection by another particle of the same virus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: ImmuneSynonym: resistant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exemption | Adjective: exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from. |
Adjective: exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; Verb: unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I hate to disappoint you but my rubber lips are immune to your charms. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) The insect becomes immune, and we are poisoned. (The Hellstrom Chronicle; writing credit: David Seltzer) Nothing's happening to me. I guess I'm immune 'cause I'm from Cincinnati. (Babes in Toyland; writing credit: Glen MacDonough; Paul Zindel) But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten - and is now immune. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; writing credit: Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger) | |
Lyrics | Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh ("ADDICTED TO LOVE"; performing artist: Robert Palmer) | |
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 | [Neither man or animal is immune to the plague] / [Hans Weiditz].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Thomas Waldmann's lecture on control of the immune response].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Anatomy Of The Immune System: : Complement Cascade.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Anatomy of the immune system: B-Cell Proliferation and differentiation.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Derby Brown | The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. |
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Health | A large immune complex. (references) | |
IVIG may help to bolster the immune responses. (references) | ||
A drug given to suppress the natural immune responses. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Chinese-language newspapers generally have been freer in reporting and commenting on sensitive political and social issues, but they are not immune to government pressure. (references) |
Russia | The police claimed she was arrested for failing to respond to a summons; however, as a member of the regional parliament, she legally was immune to questioning or arrest on criminal charges. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | South Africa is however of course not immune to the IT gloom affecting the world economy at present. (references) |
Human Rights | Central African Republic | Police and security forces are immune from prosecution for extrajudicial killings. (references) |
Mozambique | The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over members of Parliament and other persons who are immune from trial in the lower courts. (references) | |
Guatemala | Two days later, he was released after his lawyer successfully argued that he was immune from prosecution under the Law of Reconciliation. (references) | |
Travel | Turkey | Vaccines: Vaccines necessary for Turkey are all childhood immunizations, Typhoid, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A (or Immune Globulin as an alternative). (references) |
Worker Rights | Chile | Likewise, the workers engaged in collective bargaining are immune for 10 days before the presentation of a contract proposal until 30 days after it is signed. (references) |
India | Clients of prostitutes, by comparison, largely are immune from any law enforcement threat, as clients have committed a crime only if they have engaged in a sex act with a sex worker in a public place or have had sex with a girl under the age of 16 years (statutory rape). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights." |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The Soviet Union itself is not immune to this reality. |
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| "Immune" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immune" is used about 983 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 983 | 7,453 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Immune Response Corporation (The) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "immune": Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ♦ become immune ♦ Digital Immune System ♦ Hemic and Immune Systems ♦ humoral immune response ♦ Immune Adherence Reaction ♦ immune adjuvant ♦ immune carrier ♦ Immune Complex Diseases ♦ immune defence ♦ immune deficiency ♦ immune deficiency syndrome ♦ immune from ♦ immune function ♦ immune gamma globulin ♦ immune globulin ♦ immune interferon ♦ Immune Pak ♦ immune pest ♦ immune reaction ♦ immune response ♦ immune response associated ♦ Immune Sera ♦ immune serum globulin ♦ immune suppressant drug ♦ immune system ♦ Immune system disorders ♦ Immune Tolerance ♦ modulator of the immune system ♦ nonspecific immune cells ♦ Rho(D) Immune Globulin ♦ specific immune cells ♦ tetanus immune globulin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "immune": immune-based, immune-deficiency, immune-directed, immune-driven, immune-mediated, immune-response, immune-system. | |
Ending with "immune": non-immune, pre-immune. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
immune system | 959 |
immune | 134 |
immune 26 | 133 |
immune tcdo | 124 |
immune macrokine | 79 |
auto immune | 70 |
immune system supplement | 66 |
immune disorder | 54 |
immune deficiency | 49 |
immune system support | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immune"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | onvatbaar. (various references) | |
Albanian | i përjashtuar (disqualified, excommunicate), i liruar (disengaged, ex service, free, loose), i imunizuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | منيع (forbidding, impenetrable, impervious, impregnable, inexpugnable, invincible, invulnerable, secure, strong, unapproachable), مستثنى (exception), معفى (exempt, free from), حصين (impregnable, invulnerable), ذو مناعة (insusceptible, refractory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), човек с имунитет, с имунитет, осигурен (assured, provided), неприкосновен (sacred, sacrosanct, untouchable), неподатлив (hardmouthed, impracticable, insusceptible, intractable, proof, restive, stubborn, unamenable, uncompliant, unsusceptible). (various references) | |
Chinese | 免疫 (immunise, immunised, Immunities, immunity, immunize, immunized). (various references) | |
Czech | imunní (resistant), odolný (durable, resilient, resistant, tough). (various references) | |
Danish | immun, immum. (various references) | |
Dutch | immuun, resistent (resistant), onvatbaar. (various references) | |
Esperanto | imuna. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقاوم دربرابرمرض براثرتلقیح واکسن , محفوظکردن (Elate), مصون کردن , مصون , ازاد (Exempt, Free, Gratis, Loose, Open, Patent, Unattached, Unrestrained), دارای مصونیت قانونی وپارلمانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | immuuni. (various references) | |
French | immun. (various references) | |
German | immun (immun, resistant), gefeit. (various references) | |
Greek | μη υποκείμενοσ, άνοσος, ασύδοτοσ (promiscuous), απρόσβλητοσ (unassailable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחוסן, חסין (sturdy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | immúnis. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebal (invulnerable). (various references) | |
Italian | immune. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エイズ (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS). (various references) | |
Korean | 면역성. (various references) | |
Manx | seyr (autonomous; carpenter, aweigh, complimentary, disengaged, floating, fluid, free, gratis, gratuitous, independent, inexpensive, unforced, wright). (various references) | |
Norwegian | uimottakelig (impervious). (various references) | |
Papiamen | imün. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immuneay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imune (proof). (various references) | |
Romanian | insensibil (callous, cold-hearted, dead, dull, hard-hearted, imperceptible, impervious, indolent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, obdurate, unfeeling), imun (clean), scutit (exempted, free), rezistent (enduring, fast, hard, Hardy, lasting, patient, resistant, stout, strong, tough), ferit (hidden, safe, safely, secret). (various references) | |
Russian | свободный (at liberty, clear, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, free-hand, leisurely, loose, open, quit, roomy, spare, unbound, unhampered, uninhibited, unoccupied, unstuck, vacant), невосприимчивый (insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, refractory, unreceptive, unsusceptible), иммунный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imun, nezaražljiv. (various references) | |
Spanish | inmune. (various references) | |
Swedish | immun. (various references) | |
Turkish | muaf kimse, etkilenmeyen (irresponsive, unimpressionable), duyarsız (deaf, hard-hearted, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stolid, thick skin), bağixik, bağışık kimse, bağışık, ayrıcalıklı (at liberty, concessionairy, exclusive, favored, favoured, inner, preferential, prerogative, privileged, special). (various references) | |
Ukranian | імунний, захищений (covered, protected, sheltered). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | miễn khỏi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inmunem, inmunes, inmunis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immune": immunes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "immune": autoimmune, hyperimmune, nonimmune. (additional references) | |
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"Immune" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dimomona, Eanmund, emmonbee, Imani, imine, immue, immun, immuno, imne, imone, impune, imu, Imunde, imune, Inkmun, inmune, mikuni, Umamung, Umunna. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immune" (pronounced i'myuw"n) |
| 3 | -y uw" n | hewn, impugn, picayune. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-m-n-u" | |
-2 letters: menu, mien, mime, mine, muni, neum. | |
-3 letters: emu, mem, men, mim, mum, mun, nim, umm. | |
-4 letters: em, en, in, me, mi, mm, mu, ne, nu, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-m-n-u" | |
+1 letter: immunes. | |
+2 letters: encomium, hymenium, immunise, immunize, meconium, muniment, undimmed. | |
+3 letters: comminute, communise, communize, degumming, ecumenism, encomiums, germanium, gumminess, hymeniums, immunised, immunises, immunized, immunizes, immunogen, magnesium, meconiums, minuteman, minutemen, muniments, neodymium, nonimmune, pummeling, summering, untrimmed. | |
+4 letters: autoimmune, chumminess, comminuted, comminutes, communique, communised, communises, communized, communizes, compendium, crumminess, ecumenisms, germaniums, immunities, immunogens, immurement, magnesiums, manumitted, meitnerium, millennium, neodymiums, neurilemma, plummeting, polemonium, pummelling. | |
+5 letters: bemurmuring, communalize, communicate, communiques, communities, compendiums, consumerism, ecumenicism, endometrium, eudaemonism, eudaimonism, gametangium, gumminesses, hyperimmune, immunogenic, immurements, impoundment, mediastinum, meitneriums, mendelevium, millenniums, misjudgment, multienzyme, multimanned, neurilemmal, neurilemmas, pandemonium, polemoniums, resummoning, thingummies, uncommitted, unimmunized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 75 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- ..- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m u n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0075 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437979878071 |
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