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Definition: Inoculate |
InoculateVerb1. Introduce a micro-organism into. 2. Produce immunity in by inoculation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inoculate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Inoculate (4 syl.) is to put in an eye (Latin, in oculus). The allusion is to a plan adopted by gardeners who insert the "eye" or small bud of a superior plant into the stock of an inferior one, in order to produce flowers or fruits of better quality. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: InoculateSynonyms: immunise (v), immunize (v), vaccinate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insertion | Verb: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue. |
Motive | Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby. |
Teaching | Inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inoculate |
| English words defined with "inoculate": cowpox ♦ Ineye, Inoculated ♦ seed, Syphilize ♦ vaccinia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inoculate": PUBLIC-HEALTH MICROBIOLOGIST, pure-culture operator ♦ SEED-YEAST OPERATOR ♦ yeast-culture operator. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inoculate": Inoculable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Preparing to inoculate calf against blackleg, Three Circle roundup, Custer National Forest, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Inoculate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Inoculate" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
inoculate | 118 |
inoculate anti virus | 13 |
inoculate it | 12 |
etrust inoculate | 3 |
bacterium inoculate phosphorus solubility | 3 |
download inoculate | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "inoculate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vaksinoj (vaccinate), shtie (abort, fire, insert, insinuate, introduce, pour, put, shoot). (various references) | |
Arabic | لقح (fecundate, fertilize, impregnate, inject, pollinate, shoot, vaccinate), طعم (diet, engraft, feed, fill, implant, inlay, keep, nourish, relish, savor, savour, taste, transplant, troll), شرب (bib, drain, drink, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, quaff, stain, steep), دخل شيئا في. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вселявам (inspire), ваксинирам (vaccinate), вдъхвам (ensoul, imbue, implant, inbreathe, inform, inhale, inspire, prepossess, prompt, snort), надъхвам (fanaticize). (various references) | |
Chinese | 接种 (Inoculated, inoculating, inoculation, vaccinate, vaccinated, vaccinating, vaccination). (various references) | |
Czech | oèkovat (graft, vaccinate). (various references) | |
Danish | inoculere (seeding, vaccinate), indpode (seeding, vaccinate), vaccinere (seeding, vaccinate), udså (seeding, vaccinate). (various references) | |
Dutch | oculeren (budding, bud-grafting, chip budding, seeding, shield budding, vaccinate), inenten (vaccinate), enten (seeding, sowing, to graft, vaccinate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | inokuli. (various references) | |
Faeroese | pota niður í, gróðurseta, geva inn. (various references) | |
Farsi | مایه کوبی کردن , تلقیح کردن (Inseminate), اغشتن (Imbue, Indoctrinate, Saturate, Smear, Welter). (various references) | |
Finnish | istuttaa (plant, set), rokottaa (vaccinate). (various references) | |
French | inoculer. (various references) | |
German | impfen (vaccinate), einimpfen (graft, implant, inculcate, inculcation, inseminate, to inoculate). (various references) | |
Greek | εμβολιάζω (vaccinate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחסן (immunize, inure, praise, strengthen). (various references) | |
Hungarian | növényt szemez, beolt (to inoculate). (various references) | |
Italian | vaccinare (vaccinate). (various references) | |
Korean | 접종하십시요. (various references) | |
Manx | ynoklaghey (inoculation), soiaghey stiagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | innpode (instill), vaksinere. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inoculateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vacinar (vaccinate), inocular (transfuse). (various references) | |
Romanian | inocula, inculca (implant, inculcate, instil, instill), însãmânţa (seed, sow). (various references) | |
Russian | прививать (engraft, graft, vaccinate, vaccinating). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | inokulisati, pelcovati (vaccinate), kalemiti (in-arch). (various references) | |
Spanish | inocular (seeding, vaccinate), vacunar (vaccinate). (various references) | |
Swedish | ympa (graft), vaccinera (vaccinate), inympa (engraft, inseminate). (various references) | |
Thai | ฉีด (วัคซีน). (various references) | |
Turkish | vermek (accord, give), aşılamak (bud, engraft, envenom, fertilize, graft, imbue, impregnate, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, plant, suggest, transfuse, vaccinate), aşı yapmak (shoot, vaccinate). (various references) | |
Turkmen | peяwent etmek (graft). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | робити щеплення (engraft), навівати (infuse, suggest). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inoculate": inoculated, inoculates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inoculate": reinoculate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inoculate": reinoculated, reinoculates, uninoculated. (additional references) | |
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"Inoculate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inculate, indoculate, innocculate, inocculate, inocula, inoculdate, Nicollette, Nicolotte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inoculate" (pronounced i'nÄ"kyulā't) |
| 6 | -k y u l ā' t | articulate, calculate, circulate, miscalculate, recalculate, speculate. |
| 5 | -y u l ā' t | accumulate, coagulate, copulate, depopulate, emulate, formulate, manipulate, overregulate, populate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, adulate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: aconite, aloetic, alunite, auction, cauline, caution, cutline, elation, elution, inocula, lactone, lection, linecut, linocut, lunatic, noctule, outlain, outline, toenail, tunicae, tunicle. | |
-3 letters: acetin, action, aculei, aeonic, alnico, atelic, atonic, auntie, cantle, cation, catlin, centai, cental, cineol, citola, citole, client, coital, coteau, cuneal, eluant, enatic, enolic, entail, entoil, eolian, etalon, incult, inlace, lacune. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: glauconite, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, novaculite, nucleation, peculation, ulceration. | |
+2 letters: antinucleon, countervail, crenulation, cupellation, educational, ejaculation, elucidation, enucleation, equinoctial, exculpation, glauconites, inoculative, inosculated, inosculates, involucrate, novaculites, nucleations, peculations, radiolucent, reductional, reinoculate, reluctation, speculation, tenaciously, ulcerations. | |
+3 letters: aeronautical, antinucleons, conduplicate, conglutinate, consultative, counterclaim, countervails, crenulations, cupellations, discountable, edulcorating, ejaculations, elocutionary, elucidations, elucubration, emasculation, enucleations, equinoctials, exculpations, incommutable, incomputable, inoperculate, liquefaction, neurotically, nucleotidase, postulancies, reinoculated, reinoculates, reluctations, reticulation, speculations, unapologetic, uninoculated, unnoticeable, unrhetorical, vesiculation. | |
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