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What does inoculate mean?

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  1. (immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from a. 1722]
  2. (transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
  3. To add one substance to another; to spike.
  4. To graft by inserting buds. [from c. 1420]
  5. (figuratively) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue; to implant. [from a. 1600]
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Then a clear filtrate with no cells or bacteria was used to inoculate another chicken, which would then develop a tumor.
Topics have ranged from population studies, herbicide, insecticide, planter speed, and inoculate trials.
The three bacterial species used to initially inoculate treatments grew readily on nutrient agar.
In the event of a smallpox outbreak, the federal government is prepared with enough vaccine to inoculate everyone who would need it.
Such partnerships are important to inoculate our society against the twin diseases of hatred and intolerance.
The outdoors, he concluded, would eugenically inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew.

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