vaccine
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Is vaccine a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (historical)historicalnot-comparable
2. (historical)Examples: "I will call upon them: they are healthy children, we can have the vaccine infection from them, and I will inoculate the boy myself."historicalnot-comparable
3. (archaic) Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.Examples: "[M]y play could not have been written but for the work done by Sir Almroth Wright in the theory and practice of securing immunization from bacterial diseases by the inoculation of "vaccines" made of their own bacteria: a practice incorrectly called vaccinetherapy (there is nothing vaccine about it) apparently because it is what vaccination ought to be and is not."Synonyms: bovinearchaicnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (immunology)Examples: "I am much inclined to the vaccine. My friend, Mr. L—, has had all his children vaccined, and I just wait to see the effect."; "But he really ought to know the difference between a vaccine and an anti-toxin. Stimulate the phagocytes! The vaccine doesnt affect the phagocytes at all."; "South Korea is willing to cooperate with the North to tackle the disease outbreak, but Pyongyang remains unresponsive to any offers for dialogue, including Seoul's earlier proposal to provide COVID vaccines, said another official at the unification ministry. South Hwanghae Province, where Haeju is located, is North Korea's key agricultural region, raising concerns over possible impacts on the country's already dire food shortage."countableuncountable
2. (immunology)Examples: "My dog has had two vaccines this year."countableuncountable
3. (immunology)countablehistoricaluncountable
4. (immunology)alsocountableobsoleteuncountable
5. (figuratively)countablefigurativelyuncountable
6. (figuratively)countablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) Synonym of vaccinate (“to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”).Examples: "[S]ince you have decided that the boy shall be vaccined, let us send directly for the surgeon and have it done, and then he will be safe."Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinatearchaictransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary