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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inject
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 injected serially until the weal or the symptoms disappear.
▪ Thirty µg of peptide conjugate were then injected intravenously.
▪ The solution is then injected into flames; the kind of gas being burnt depends on the element being analysed.
■ NOUN
cell
▪ When they injected these cells into the veins of rats that had suffered strokes, the results were spectacular.
drug
▪ If you inject drugs, it is best to keep your own set of works and never share.
▪ Some one else will inject lethal drugs into his bloodstream.
▪ They may use hypodermic syringes to inject the drug into their bloodstream.
▪ The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug, though of course his tactile sensations aren't blunted.
▪ The rest were mainly infected as a result of injecting drugs and sharing needles.
▪ Charities and user groups had visions of mentally ill people being strapped to their kitchen tables and injected with drugs.
▪ Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him.
life
▪ But, all of a sudden, they managed to inject life into their weary limbs.
▪ Robson responded with a desperate triple substitution, but it failed to inject any life into his side.
▪ He campaigned vigorously against the use of drugs and injected new life and efficiency into sports administration.
mouse
▪ Chain and Heatley injected streptococci into mice and then treated some of the mice with penicillin.
▪ When the scientists injected the fat mice with leptin, they became skinny minnies.
▪ Twenty one days post-infection, flies were dissected and infected salivary glands were injected into mice.
▪ When material from the brains of these mice was injected into other mice and hamsters, it eventually killed them.
▪ Moreover, it was not harmful when it was injected into mice.
■ VERB
try
▪ He really tries to inject some energy into the movie.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A drug that is injected reaches the brain faster than if it is smoked or sniffed.
▪ Hastings Corporation has injected huge amounts of money into the venture.
▪ Most heroin users prefer to inject the drug.
▪ Two years ago I was both smoking and injecting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inject

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.]

  1. To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

  2. Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.

    C[ae]sar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
    --Milton.

  3. To cast or throw; -- with on. [R.]

    And mound inject on mound.
    --Pope.

  4. (Anat.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

  5. to add in; to insert; to interject; as, to inject a comment into the conversation; to inject humor into a tense situation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inject

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.

Wiktionary
inject

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage. 2 (context transitive English) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently. 3 (context transitive English) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs. 4 (context intransitive English) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs. 5 (context transitive computing English) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.

WordNet
inject

  1. v. give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: shoot]

  2. to introduce (a new aspect or element); "He injected new life into the performance"

  3. force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: shoot]

  4. take by injection; "inject heroin"

  5. feed intravenously

  6. to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks" [syn: interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in]

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.