What is "vaccinating"

Vaccinate \Vac"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaccinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaccinating.] [See Vaccine.] To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

vb. (present participle of vaccinate English)

n. the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the innoculating" [syn: inoculating]