Definition of inoculate Inoculate

/ɪnɑˈkjʌlejˌt/ - [inakyuleyt] - in•oc•u•late

We found 18 definitions of inoculate from 6 different sources.

What does inoculate mean?

Verb inoculates, inoculating, inoculated
inoculate - introduce a microorganism into
		inclose, stick in, enclose, insert, put in, introduce surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
		seed remove the seeds from; "seed grapes"
inoculate - impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
		impregnate make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again"
inoculate - insert a bud for propagation
		propagate multiply sexually or asexually
inoculate - introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"
		inform give character or essence to; "The principles that inform modern teaching"
inoculate - perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
		immunize, immunise, vaccinate
		inject, shoot give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
		practice of medicine, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"

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inoculate (Verb)
To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
inoculate (Verb)
To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
inoculate (Verb)
To add one substance to another. To spike.
inoculate (Verb)
To graft by inserting buds.

inoculate (v. t.)
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
inoculate (v. t.)
To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
inoculate (v. t.)
To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
inoculate (v. t.)
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
inoculate (v. i.)
To graft by inserting buds.
inoculate (v. i.)
To communicate disease by inoculation.

inoculate
To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.

inoculate
in-ok′ū-lāt, v.t. to insert a bud for propagation: to engraft: to communicate disease by inserting matter in the skin.—v.i. to propagate by budding: to practise inoculation.—adj. Inoc′ulable.—n. Inoculā′tion, act or practice of inoculating: insertion of the buds of one plant into another: the communication of disease to a healthy subject by the introduction of a specific germ or animal poison into his system by puncture or otherwise.—adjs. Inoculā′tive, Inoculā′tory.—n. Inoc′ulator. [L. inoculāre, -ātum—in, into, oculus, an eye.]