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Definition: Immunize |
ImmunizeVerb1. Produce immunity in by inoculation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immunize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonyms: ImmunizeSynonyms: immunise (v), inoculate (v), vaccinate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Immunize |
| English words defined with "immunize": toxin antitoxin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "immunize": family physicia, FAMILY PRACTITIONER ♦ MEDICAL-SERVICE TECHNICIAN ♦ physician, general practic. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | I'm Loved : California Kids Love them. Immunize them.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | How many immunizations does it take to protect your child? : California Kids Love them. Immunize them.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Not Just For Kids. : Immunize.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Immunize And Protect Your Child.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Give your baby a good start- IMMUNIZE : Immunization is available at all Maternal & Child Health Centres.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Whooping Cough Is Not A Bird... : IMMUNIZE Against Whooping Cough.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Keep Measles A Memory - Immunize!.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | BE WISE IMMUNIZE / Cheryl Stafford.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | A child's health is as precious as a work of art. : Immunize your child today. / Mary Cassatt.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The study will test a more potent version of the vaccine currently used to immunize children against the chickenpox virus. (references) | |
In all cases, the decision to immunize an infant between 6 and 9 months of age, a pregnant woman, or an immunocompromised patient should be made on an individual basis. (references) | ||
Research studies conducted in the 1960s and 1970s showed that experimental vaccination in people with attenuated malaria parasites can effectively immunize them against getting another malaria infection. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ghana | Other guardians who had refused to immunize their children were not compelled to do so, and only approximately half of the children countrywide were immunized. (references) |
Ghana | The NGO argued that the Government should enact legislation compelling all children to be immunized before it could legitimately force guardians to immunize their own children. (references) | |
Ghana | In 2000 the Ho (Volta Region) DCE led a joint operation with police and health personnel to immunize the children at an Apostolic Faith of Kpalexose ("Well-rooted Faith" in the Ewe language) church against poliomyelitis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Immunize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Immunize" is used about 5 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "immunize": immunize oneself. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
immunize | 15 |
immunize.org vis | 6 |
health.state.mn.us immunize | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immunize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imunizoj. (various references) | |
Arabic | منع (averting, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, debar, deny, deprive, deter, estop, exclude, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidding, foreclose, hinder, hindering, hold back, inhibit, interdict, interdiction, keep from, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, preclude, prevent, preventing, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, restrain from, stop, taboo, veto, ward off, withhold), حصن (arm, bastion, beef up, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, redoubt, stronghold, tower, trench). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | имунизиране (immunization). (various references) | |
Chinese | 免疫 (immune, immunise, immunised, Immunities, immunity, immunized). (various references) | |
Czech | imunizovat. (various references) | |
Farsi | مصونیت دارکردن . (various references) | |
French | immuniser. (various references) | |
German | immun machen. (various references) | |
Greek | κάμνω άνοσο, ανοσοποιώ, διασφαλίζω (safeguard, secure). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחסן (inoculate, inure, praise, strengthen). (various references) | |
Hungarian | védõoltással ellát, mentesít (to decontaminate, to exempt, to exonerate, to frank, to free). (various references) | |
Italian | immunizzare (become immune, immunise, immunize oneself). (various references) | |
Korean | 면역하십시" (immunise). (various references) | |
Manx | jeenaghey (rinse, roof). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immunizeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imunização (immunisation, immunization, salting, vaccination). (various references) | |
Romanian | imuniza (salt). (various references) | |
Russian | иммунизировать (immunizing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uraditi imunizaciju. (various references) | |
Spanish | inmunizar. (various references) | |
Swedish | immunisera, göra immun. (various references) | |
Turkish | muaf tutmak (acquit, discharge, excuse, exempt, exonerate, free, prune, release, rescue), bağışıklık kazandırmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | імунізувати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immunize": immunized, immunizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "immunize": hyperimmunize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "immunize": hyperimmunized, hyperimmunizes, unimmunized. (additional references) | |
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"Immunize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Immunage, immuniser. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immunize" (pronounced i"myuwnī'z) |
| 3 | -n ī' z | agonize, aluminize, antagonize, balkanize, carbonize, colonize, communize, demonize, disorganize, euthanize, fraternize, galvanize, harmonize, hellenize, homogenize, humanize, ionize, ironize, lionize, mechanize, modernize, organize, patronize, recognize, reorganize, revolutionize, scrutinize, suburbanize, synchronize, unionize, urbanize, westernize, womanize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-u-z" | |
-2 letters: immune, minium. | |
-3 letters: imine, minim, mizen. | |
-4 letters: menu, mien, mime, mine, mini, muni, neum, zein. | |
-5 letters: emu, mem, men, mim, mum, mun, nim, umm, zin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-u-z" | |
+1 letter: immunized, immunizes. | |
+3 letters: unimmunized. | |
+5 letters: hyperimmunize. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 75 6E 69 7A 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 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m u n i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0075 006E 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4379798780759271 |
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