Crossword clues for contagious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contagious \Con*ta"gious\, a. [L. contagiosus: cf. F. contagieux.]
(Med.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
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Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
His genius rendered his courage more contagious.
--Wirt.The spirit of imitation is contagious.
--Ames.Syn: Contagious, Infectious.
Usage: Although often used as synonyms, originally these words were used in very diverse senses; but, in general, a contagious disease has been considered as one which is caught from another by some near contact, by the breath, by bodily effluvia, etc.; while an infectious disease supposed some entirely different cause acting by a hidden influence, like the miasma of prison ships, of marshes, etc., infecting the system with disease. In either case, a pathogenic microorganism is the direct cause of the disease. ``This distinction, though not universally admitted by medical men, as to the literal meaning of the words, certainly applies to them in their figurative use. Thus we speak of the contagious influence of evil associates; their contagion of bad example, the contagion of fear, etc., when we refer to transmission by proximity or contact. On the other hand, we speak of infection by bad principles, etc., when we consider anything as diffused by some hidden influence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French contagieus (Modern French contagieux), from Late Latin contagiosus, from Latin contagio (see contact (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a disease, easily transmitted to others. 2 Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others. 3 Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to communicable diseases; "by the road to the contagious hospital"
easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; "a contagious grin"
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable]
Wikipedia
Contagious may refer to:
- Contagious disease
Contagious is the eighth studio album by American hard rock/ heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1987 through Geffen Records, which, like their previous label A&M Records, is now a subsidiary of Interscope Records (itself owned by Universal Music Group). It is the first Y&T studio album to feature a different line up since their debut album, with Jimmy DeGrasso replacing Leonard Haze on drums after he left the band in 1986.
"Contagious" is a song by The Isley Brothers featuring group member Ronald Isley. It was released as a single from their 2001 album Eternal. The song was written and produced by R. Kelly, who was also featured on the song, and also features vocals by R&B singer Chanté Moore.
The video plays as a mini soap opera depicting a man who goes home and finds out his woman has been cheating on him with another man. The song is taken to another level during the breakdown of the song, where the two men, Mr. Biggs and Kelly, meet once again after their previous battle on Kelly's 1996 single, "Down Low" (although they also met on Kelly Price's 1998 hit " Friend of Mine"). In the middle of the second verse, Ron Isley goes down memory lane after saying "The down low happened to me all over again"; additionally, the third verse starts off with Mr. Biggs asking R. Kelly "What the hell is going on between the sheets in my own home?", reprising their meeting in the Kelly Price song as well as the title of his own hit " Between the Sheets", and R. Kelly accuses Mr. Biggs (who recalls seeing him before) of mistaken identity. In the video, there is also a brief clip of the " Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)" video, shown of Mr. Biggs beating R. Kelly with a sledgehammer.
"Contagious" rose to #19 on the pop singles chart and #3 on the R&B singles chart and made the Isleys the first band to score a hit in six consecutive decades on Billboard's Hot 100. The breakthrough helped their 2001 album Eternal go double platinum.
In 2002 the song won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo.
Contagious is the second album by soul singer, Peggy Scott-Adams. It followed hot on the heels of the success of her debut album " Help Yourself. Includes the hit singles, " Spousal Abuse", "I'm in Love" and "What'cha Doin' To Me."
Contagious is an advertising magazine that is published quarterly by Contagious Communications, a total communications resource for the global marketing community. It was founded in 2004 by Paul Kemp-Robertson, former director of creative resources at advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide and editor of Shots magazine, and Gee Thomson, author of Mesmerization and co-founder of Shots magazine.
Contagious is the third full-length studio album of Philippine bossa nova singer Sitti, after 2006's Café Bossa and 2007's My Bossa Nova. It was released in mid-2009.
Contagious is a science fiction thriller novel by Scott Sigler. It is the sequel to Sigler's Infected, and like its predecessor was released in both podcast and print versions.
Usage examples of "contagious".
Landouzy proves to us that ever since the sixteenth century, in the districts of the Mediterranean, in Spain, in the Balearic Isles and throughout the kingdom of Naples, tuberculosis was held to be contagious, whilst the rest of Europe was ignorant of this contagion.
It is better known as the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV for short, and it is extremely contagious.
In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.
The contagious and wild melody of the Ranz des Vaches rose in the square, and soon drew the absorbed and delighted attention of all within hearing which, to say the truth, was little less than all who were within the limits of the town, for, the crowd chiming in with the more regular artists, a, sort of musical enthusiasm seized upon all present who came of Vaud and her valleys.
And most had sense enough to understand that if the Rebels would not get close to them, they must be contagious.
Bubonic and septicemic plague are spread only through bites from infected fleas, so people who develop this form of the disease are not contagious to others.
It meets all the array of negative cases,--those in which disease did not follow exposure,--by the striking example of small-pox, which, although one of the most contagious of diseases, is subject to the most remarkable irregularities and seeming caprices in its transmission.
It is true of all contagious diseases, that they frequently spare those who appear to be fully submitted to their influence.
And there were rumors that the viral vectors the gengineers had used to make their changes could be contagious.
An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious.
Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.
The practical point to be illustrated is the following: The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.
Many of the prisoners believed that the scurvy was contagious, and I saw men guarding their wells and springs, fearing lest some man suffering with the scurvy might use the water and thus poison them.
Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.
He anticipates another hostile encounter with the urchins, and that fearful prospect spreads a contagious blight over everything for him.