Inoculate vs Innoculate - What's the difference?
inoculate | innoculate |
(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.
To graft by inserting buds.
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(figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.
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Innoculate is a alternative form of inoculate.
As verbs the difference between inoculate and innoculate
is that inoculate is to introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease while innoculate is an alternative spelling of inoculate.inoculate
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Alternative forms
* innoculateVerb
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
- to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
- to inoculate a tree
- to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
