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Definition: Inoculating |
InoculatingNoun1. The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the innoculating". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inoculating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
Synonym: InoculatingSynonym: vaccinating (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Inoculating |
| Specialty definitions using "inoculating": ferro-silico-calcium, ferro-silicon. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lab Technician inoculating leptosprial cultures with seed culture. Credit: CDC. |  | [A man inoculating eggs]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Sara Elizabeth Branham inoculating a mouse to text meningitis serum. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Veterinary hired by farmers' cooperative inoculating pig. Fairfield Bench Farms, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Inoculating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Inoculating" is used about 7 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 (-ing form) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "inoculating": inoculating agent. 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 |
inoculating loop | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inoculating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 接种 (inoculate, Inoculated, inoculation, vaccinate, vaccinated, vaccinating, vaccination). (various references) | |
Danish | podemiddel (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
Dutch | inoculatiemiddel (inoculating agent), entmiddel (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
Finnish | ymppäysaine (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
French | inoculant (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
German | einimpfend. (various references) | |
Greek | μέσον εμβολιασμού (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
Italian | inoculante (inoculating agent), sostanza inoculante (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
Korean | 접종 (inoculation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inoculatingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | substância inoculante (inoculant, inoculating agent), matéria inoculante (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
Russian | прививать прививание. (various references) | |
Spanish | inoculador. (various references) | |
Swedish | ympmedel (inoculant, inoculating agent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "inoculating": reinoculating. (additional references) | |
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"Inoculating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inculating, innoculating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: auctioning, cautioning. | |
-2 letters: anticling, clintonia, continual, incaution, incognita, inoculant, outlining, uncoating, uncoiling. | |
-3 letters: clouting, continua, countian, counting, inaction, inguinal, inlacing, intaglio, ligation, locating, logician, lunation, nonguilt, noticing, unlacing. | |
-4 letters: actinon, alining, anionic, antigun, antilog, antlion, atoning, auction, augitic, autoing, cannoli, canting, catling, caution, cingula, cloning, coaling, coating, coiling, coining, contain, inocula, intagli, lancing, linocut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: inosculating. | |
+2 letters: reinoculating. | |
+3 letters: agglutinogenic, conglutinating, conglutination, countervailing, malfunctioning, noncirculating, uncongeniality. | |
+4 letters: conceptualising, conceptualizing, configurational, conglutinations, contextualizing, counterclaiming. | |
+5 letters: uncongenialities. | |
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