different between jab vs vaccine

English

Etymology

Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Noun

jab (plural jabs)

1. A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,

     He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.

2. (boxing) A short straight punch.
3. (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)

   Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.

4. (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
5. (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.

Derived terms

• jabby

Translations

Verb

jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)

1. To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
2. To deliver a quick punch.
3. (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection

Translations

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)

1. job, piece of work
2. post, employment

Declension

Derived terms

• jabaire m (“(cattle-)jobber”)

References

• "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jab.

Noun

jab m (invariable)

1. jab (boxing punch)

Spanish

Noun

jab m (plural jabs)

1. (boxing) jab

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