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Word definitions for inject in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inject \In*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Injected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Injecting .] [L. injectus, p. p. of inicere, injicere, to throw in; pref. in- in + jacere to throw: cf. F. injecter. See Jet a shooting forth.] To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: shoot ] to introduce (a new aspect or element); "He injected new life into the performance" force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin iniectus "a casting on, throwing over," past participle of inicere "to throw in or on," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + -icere , comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Related: Injectable ; injected ; injecting .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES inject drugs (= use a needle to put drugs into your body ) ▪ People who share equipment for injecting drugs are at risk of contracting HIV. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB then ▪ Either lower or higher doses are then ...
Usage examples of inject.
However, he argued, it was addictive only when injected, and he had never suggested that anyone do this.
She uses the glove box for the last time, breaking open a vial of sodium fluoride solution and injecting an aliquot into every one of the cell cultures.
The birds were amnesic if the agent was injected up to 1-2 hours after training, or around 5-7 hours after training, but not if the injections were at intermediate times or later than 8 hours after training.
Perhaps the solar ultraviolet light could be absorbed by an atmospheric layer of pulverized asteroidal or surface debris injected in carefully titrated amounts above the CFCs.
For a moment, he considered telling them how he had devised a method of injecting lithium-6 deuteride directly into the core of an atomic bomb, making a thermonuclear reaction.
Injected at the speed of light, but in a digitized and orderly manner, matter broken down into energy might well be reduced to an equation, or series of equations, written in energy itself.
If a poisonous fungus has been eaten, its ill-effects may nowadays be promptly met by antidotes injected beneath the skin, and by taking small doses of strychnia in coffee.
Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunist land crab, it will hang you and catch your jissom like a scrutable dog, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.
The vaccine was basically weakened tubercle bacilli which were injected into the skin, then followed by injections of various drugs such as ethambutol, rifampicin, thiacetazone, and poyrazinamide, and sometimes streptomycin, isioniazid, and para-aminosalicylic acid.
They could alight on a sleeping man without waking him and insinuate their poisoned needles deep into his flesh, sucking his blood, injecting itches, fever, the parasitic worms of filaria, and slow death.
I have injected contains a type of sugar, fucose, which the brain uses to synthesize some of the vital molecular components of its nerve cell membranes.
Now that the queen has admitted to drugging us all, why did you not simply inject your passion potion and have done with it?
Doc had explained that Jan Hile had effected this by injecting paraffin, and that the stuff had best be removed later with a slight surgical operation.
Unlike his Liberal predecessors who tried to keep external disputes out of domestic politics, Diefenbaker deliberately injected international issues into his hustings orations.
To test this hypothesis, they injected the same cancer cells into another group of mice, but instead of giving these mice estriol, they gave them hyaluronic acid.