INJECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inject mean? 

• INJECT (verb)
  The verb INJECT has 6 senses:

1. give an injection to

2. to introduce (a new aspect or element)

3. force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

4. take by injection

5. feed intravenously

6. to insert between other elements

  Familiarity information: INJECT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they inject    ... he / she / it injects   
Past simple: injected   
Past participle: injected   
-ing form: injecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give an injection to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Context example:

We injected the glucose into the patient's vein

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

administer; dispense (give or apply (medications))

Verb group:

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inject"):

infuse (introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes)

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence example:

Did he inject his foot?

Derivation:

injectable ((used of drugs) capable of being injected)

injectant (any solution that is injected (as into the skin))

injection (the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To introduce (a new aspect or element)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

He injected new life into the performance

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Context example:

inject hydrogen into the balloon

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Verb group:

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence examples:

They inject the fruit with a chemical
They inject a chemical into the fruit

Derivation:

injectable ((used of drugs) capable of being injected)

injection (the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure)

injector (a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take by injection

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

inject heroin

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inject"):

mainline (inject into the vein)

pop (take drugs, especially orally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

injectant (any solution that is injected (as into the skin))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Feed intravenously

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

To insert between other elements

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in

Context example:

She interjected clever remarks

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

A substance that contains boron is injected into a blood vessel.

(BNCT, NCI Dictionary)

When injected into the individual from whom the tumor cells were isolated, this vaccine may stimulate an antitumoral cytotoxic T-lymphocytic immune response.

(Autologous Immunoglobulin Idiotype-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A very small amount of radioactive material is injected into a vein and travels through the blood.

(Bone scan, NCI Dictionary)

BPA is injected into a blood vessel and collects in tumor cells.

(BPA, NCI Dictionary)

Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex is injected into a blood vessel and collects in tumor cells.

(Boronophenylalanine-fructose complex, NCI Dictionary)

When injected back into the patient, autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010 may differentiate into various mesenchyme-derived cell types and, in some instances, may augment bone marrow engraftment after whole-body irradiation.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Thesaurus)

Apidra gets into the blood faster than insulin when it is injected under the skin before or shortly after a meal.

(Apidra, NCI Dictionary)

The cells are then treated with radiation to stop them from growing and injected into the same or a different patient.

(Allogeneic GM-CSF-Secreting Breast Cancer Vaccine, NCI Dictionary)

RML scientists injected either ASO1 or ASO2 into mice 14 days prior to infecting them with scrapie, and then seven or 15 weeks after infection.

(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)

Antigen Sensitization is a process of immunization with an antigen preparation that renders an immune-response involving generation of antibodies against the specific antigen(s) injected.

(Antigen Sensitization, NCI Thesaurus)