What is the difference between infect and wabbit?
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As adjectives the difference between infect and wabbit is that infect is (obsolete) infected while wabbit is (scotland) exhausted, tired. As a verb infect is to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen). As a noun wabbit is (humorous|childish|eye-dialect) rabbit or wabbit can be (computing) a self-replicating program that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers.
infect English
Verb
( en verb)
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
, title= In the News
, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}
To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
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Antonyms
* disinfect
Derived terms
* infection
* infectible
Related terms
* infectious
Adjective
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(obsolete) Infected.
* 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .
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wabbit English
Etymology 1
(etyl) wabbit, ultimate origin uncertain.
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
(humorous, childish, eye-dialect) rabbit
Etymology 3
Probably representing pronunciation of (rabbit) by the cartoon character , and referring to the ability of rabbits to multiply quickly.
Noun
( wikipedia wabbit)
( en noun)
(computing) A self-replicating program that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers.
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