HOW TO PRONOUNCE
vaccine
/ˌvækˈsin/
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Put the main stress on “seen.”
The double c spelling represents a k followed by s, leading into the stronger long ee vowel.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The leaflet explains how the vaccine is stored.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does vaccine mean?
noun
- A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
- The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
- (figuratively) Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
More meanings (7)
noun
- (figuratively) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
- (historical) The material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
- (obsolete) The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
adjective
- (historical) Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
- (historical) Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
- (archaic) Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
verb
- (archaic) Synonym of vaccinate (“to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌvækˈsin/
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"It is essential that the vaccine bud or germ have a congenial soil, uncontaminated by another poison, which, like a weed, might choke its healthy growth."--Dendy.
In variola and the vaccine disease the poison is determined to the skin, in glanders to the Schneiderian membrane, and in farcy to the superficial absorbents.
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Cuvier has said, “If vaccine were the only discovery of the epoch, it would serve to render it illustrious for ever; yet it knocked twenty times in vain at the doors of the Academies.”
Two of the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States originated from an infected vaccine used for the inoculation of vaccine heifers.