Crossword clues for immunity
immunity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immunity \Im*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Immunities. [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunit['e]. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]
Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "exempt from service or obligation," from Old French immunité and directly from Latin immunitatem (nominative immunitas) "exemption from performing public service or charge," from immunis "exempt, free," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + munis "performing services" (compare municipal), from PIE *moi-n-es-, suffixed form of root *mei- (1) "to change" (see mutable). Medical sense "protection from disease" is 1879, from French or German.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: 2 # (context medicine English) Fully protective resistance against infection. 3 # (context law English) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services. 4 # (context law English) An exemption from prosecution. 5 # (context in games and competitions English) An exemption given to a player from lose or being withdrawn from play. 6 (context countable English) A resistance to a specific thing.
WordNet
n. the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" [syn: unsusceptibility] [ant: susceptibility]
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease [syn: resistance]
the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity to criticism"
an act exempting someone; "he was granted immunity from prosecution" [syn: exemption, granting immunity]
Wikipedia
Immunity may refer to:
Immunity is a solo album by Rupert Hine. Originally released in 1981, re-released and digitally remastered in 2001. The album was dedicated to Liam Byrne. The song "Misplaced Love" features a brief chorus by British singer Marianne Faithfull.
Immunity is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of immunology published by Cell Press. The journal was established in December 1994, and is edited by Peter T. Lee.
Immunity is the fourth studio album by English musician and producer Jon Hopkins. The electronic album was released on June 4, 2013 by Domino Records to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize for best album. It also peaked at #13 on Billboards Top Electronic Albums. Stated MixMag, "Immunity is an album of organic techno and exquisite mini-symphonies."
Usage examples of "immunity".
The main reason for this apparent immunity to fear, so psychologists believe, s the Adonian ego.
LAPD wanted to offer Susan Atkins immunity, in exchange for telling what she knew about the murders.
The immunity of the gods, who fight their mock battles while men stand and die, casts into higher relief the tragic situation of the men who risk and suffer not only pain and mutilation but the prospect, inevitable if the war goes on long enough, of death, of the total extinction of the individual personality.
Facing life without parole, Bollinger, who was only thirty-three, decided to toot his whistle in exchange for immunity and a ticket out of town.
He whose thousand-yearlong tapasya compelled mighty Brahma himself to grant him everlasting life and immunity from all destruction.
The Seven Seers were said to be indestructible, protected by the omnipotent hand of Brahma, divine ambassadors granted total immunity.
Interviewed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she had gone following her release from jail, Mary Brunner agreed to cooperate with the police in return for immunity in the Hinman murder.
The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity.
The value of an agent which thus improves the general health, insures immunity from coughs, colds, and other diseases, and at the same time produces a healthy and permanent beauty of complexion, is at once apparent.
Inasmuch as most large concerns prosecute both an interstate and a domestic business, while the instrumentalities of interstate commerce and the pecuniary returns from such commerce are ordinarily property within the jurisdiction of some State or other, the task before the Court in drawing the line between the immunity claimed by interstate business on the one hand and the prerogatives claimed by local power on the other has at times involved it in self-contradiction, as successive developments have brought into prominence novel aspects of its complex problem or have altered the perspective in which the interests competing for its protection have appeared.
Department of Immunity is going to do is round up all the free converts by any means necessary.
He simply indicated that all contractors who dealt with the Government were entitled to immunity from taxation upon such transactions.
Nature provided an immunity that allowed some dogs to overcome the infestation and live.
I thought his immunity to fads was part of the key to where fads came from.
These fats are then dumped into the bloodstream where they cause tissue damage, compromise immunity, and are stored in fat cells.