different between booster vs vaccine

English

Etymology

boost +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bust?/

Noun

booster (plural boosters)

1. Something that boosts.
2. The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight
3. A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
4. Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
   • 2012, The Economist, Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded

     Nor is his district quite the Democratic bastion boosters describe: voters there narrowly backed Barack Obama in 2008, but voted for Mr Bush by a hefty margin in 2004.

5. Someone who promotes a town or business
6. A member of a booster club.
7. A booster dose.

   When did you get your last tetanus booster?

8. (linguistics) A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
9. (video games) A power-up item.
10. (gaming) A package of cards or figurines designed to add to a player's collection.
11. (slang) A thief.

    The security guard captured two boosters before they could exit the retail store.

Derived terms

• booster bag
• booster cable
• booster club
• booster dose
• booster injection
• boosterish
• booster seat
• booster shot

Translations

Anagrams

• Booters, Boteros, booters, reboost, reboots

Spanish

Noun

booster m (plural boosters)

1. booster

English

Etymology

From Latin vacc?nus, from vacca (“cow”) (because of early use of the cowpox virus against smallpox). Compare New Latin variola vacc?na (“cowpox”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) /?væk.si?n/, /?væk.s?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væk?si?n/,

Noun

vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)

1. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the 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 related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute.
2. The process of vaccination.

   My dog has had two vaccines this year.

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• immunization
• inoculation
• shot

Translations

References

Danish

Noun

vaccine c (singular definite vaccinen, plural indefinite vacciner)

1. vaccine

Declension

Related terms

• vaccination
• vaccinere

References

• “vaccine” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Verb

vaccine

1. inflection of vacciner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Adjective

vaccine f pl

1. feminine plural of vaccino

Anagrams

• vinacce