Immune vs Prohibit - What's the difference?
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Exempt; not subject to.
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Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
(by extension) Not vulnerable.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.
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, title= (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
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, passage=Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes .}}
To make immune.
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* 1905 , American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal (volume 29, page 42)
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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As verbs the difference between immune and prohibit
is that immune is to make immune while prohibit is to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.As an adjective immune
is exempt; not subject to.As a noun immune
is (epidemiology) a person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease.immune
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Adjective
(en adjective)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
Antonyms
* susceptible * vulnerableDerived terms
* autoimmuneNoun
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Coordinate terms
* infective * susceptibleVerb
(immun)- In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision
- The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.
prohibit
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Verb
(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
