Vaccinate vs. Inoculate: What's the Difference?

To inoculate with a vaccine in order to produce immunity to an infectious disease, such as diphtheria or typhus.

To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.

To perform vaccinations or a vaccination.

To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism.

(transitive) To treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.

To implant microorganisms or infectious material into (a culture medium).

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows; now, generally, to administer (by injection or otherwise) any vaccine with the objective of rendering the recipient immune to an infectious disease. One who has been thus immunized by vaccination is said to be vaccinated against a particular disease. One may be thus immunized (vaccinated) also by oral ingestion or inhalation of a vaccine.

To safeguard as if by inoculation; protect

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation;

To introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of

To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.

To add one substance to another.

To graft by inserting buds.

(figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.

To communicate a disease to (a person) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh, especially as a means of inducing immunological resistance to that or related diseases; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox, rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.

Fig.: To introduce into the mind; - used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.

To introduce microorganisms into (a growth medium), to cause the growth and multiplication of the microorganisms; as, to inoculate a fermentation vat with an actinomycete culture in order to produce streptomycin.

To graft by inserting buds.

To communicate disease by inoculation.

Introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of;

Introduce a micro-organism into

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation;

Insert a bud for propagation

Impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune