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Inculcate vs Inoculate - What's the difference?

inculcate | inoculate |

As verbs the difference between inculcate and inoculate

is that inculcate is to teach by repeated instruction while inoculate is to introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

inculcate

English

Verb

(inculcat)
  • To teach by repeated instruction.
  • To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
  • Quotations

    {{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewis

    inoculate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * innoculate

    Verb

  • (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.
  • The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
  • To graft by inserting buds.
  • to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
    to inoculate a tree
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  • (figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.
  • to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
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  • See also

    * immunize / immunise * vaccinate