Cultivate vs Inoculate - What's the difference?
cultivate | inoculate |
To grow plants, notably crops
To nurture; to foster; to tend.
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
(immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
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(by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
To add one substance to another; to spike.
To graft by inserting buds.
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(figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.
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As verbs the difference between cultivate and inoculate
is that cultivate is to grow plants, notably crops while inoculate is to introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.cultivate
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Verb
(cultivat)- Farmers should cultivate their crops to get a good harvest.
- They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
Derived terms
* cultivable * cultivar * cultivated * cultivation * cultivator * uncultivatedinoculate
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Alternative forms
* innoculateVerb
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
- to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
- to inoculate a tree
- to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
