Infant vs Infect - What's the difference?
infant | infect |
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
* Milton
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
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(obsolete) Infected.
* 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between infant and infect
is that infant is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general while infect is (obsolete) infected.As verbs the difference between infant and infect
is that infant is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general while infect is to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).As a noun infant
is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.As an adjective infect is
(obsolete) infected.infant
English
(wikipedia infant)Alternative forms
* infaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
See also
* sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonateVerb
(en verb)- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
infect
English
Verb
(en verb)Katie L. Burke
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Antonyms
* disinfectDerived terms
* infection * infectibleAdjective
(-)- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .