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remedy
English
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???m?di/
- Hyphenation: rem?e?dy
Noun
remedy (plural remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms
- (Scottish contexts): remeid
Derived terms
- home remedy
- remediless
Translations
Verb
remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
Synonyms
- redress
- help
- correct
- cure
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Related terms
- remediable
- remedial
Further reading
- remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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vaccine
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)
- (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.
- 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)
- vaccine
Declension
Related terms
- vaccination
- vaccinere
References
- “vaccine” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Verb
vaccine
- inflection of vacciner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Adjective
vaccine f pl
- feminine plural of vaccino
Anagrams
- vinacce
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