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Inject vs Prick - What's the difference?

inject | prick |

In lang=en terms the difference between inject and prick

is that inject is to take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs while prick is to become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

As verbs the difference between inject and prick

is that inject is to push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage while prick is to pierce or puncture slightly.

As a noun prick is

a small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.

inject

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
    • The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
  • To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
    • Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
  • * Milton
    • Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
  • To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
    • Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.
    to inject the blood vessels
  • To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
    • It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.
  • (computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David Taillé , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation
    Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation
    As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}
  • (obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • And mound inject on mound.

    Related terms

    * injectable * injection

    prick

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) prik, prikke, from (etyl) prica, . Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
  • An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
  • (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
  • (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
  • A small pointed object.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Pins, wooden pricks , nails, sprigs of rosemary.
  • * Bible, Acts ix. 5
    • It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks .
  • The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
    • I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
  • * A. Tucker
    • the pricks of conscience
  • (slang, vulgar) The penis.
  • (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
  • (now, historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
  • The footprint of a hare.
  • (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the prick of noon
  • (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
  • * Spenser
    • they that shooten nearest the prick
    Derived terms
    * pricker * prickle * prickly * pricktease * prickteaser

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce or puncture slightly.
    • John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
  • To form by piercing or puncturing.
    • to prick holes in paper
    to prick a pattern for embroidery
    to prick the notes of a musical composition
    (Cowper)
  • (dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
    • A sore finger pricks .
  • To incite, stimulate, goad.
  • * (rfdate), (Shakespeare), (Two Gentlemen of Verona) , ii. 7.
    • My duty pricks me on to utter that.
  • To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
  • * Bible, Acts ii. 37
    • Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
  • * Tennyson
    • I was pricked with some reproof.
  • (archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
    • (Milton)
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
    • At last, as through an open plaine they yode, / They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].
  • * 1881 , :
    • Indeed, it is a memorable subject for consideration, with what unconcern and gaiety mankind pricks on along the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
  • (transitive, chiefly, nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
  • (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)
  • To make acidic or pungent.
    • (Hudibras)
  • To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
  • To aim at a point or mark.
    • (Hawkins)
  • To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
    • to prick a knife into a board
  • * Sandys
    • The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
    (Isaac Newton)
  • (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked .
  • To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up .
  • * Dryden
    • The courser pricks up his ears.
  • (obsolete) To dress; to prink; usually with up .
  • (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
    • (Webster 1913)