different between sputnik vs vaccine

English

Alternative forms

• Sputnik

Etymology

From Russian ???????? (spútnik, “satellite”, literally “fellow traveller”), from ?- (s-, “with, together”) + ??????? (pútnik, “traveller”), from ???? (put?, “way, journey”) + agent suffix -??? (-nik).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?sp?tn?k/, /?sp?tn?k/
• Hyphenation: sput?nik

Noun

sputnik (plural sputniks)

1. (historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
2. (dated) Any artificial satellite.
   • 1958, Clinton P. Anderson, statement on the Senate floor, quoted in, Legislative history: Saline water conversion act, page 783

     With this program, we could bring water to the Middle East. We could rebuild some of our sagging esteem in that part of the world; we could insure that in this area at least we would have our sputniks abreast the Russians', and we could do our own economy a priceless good turn.

   • 1958 October 23, Gemnius, "It seems to me", New Scientist, page 1120

     This is but one of the facts which should demonstrate to those who would build British sputniks that such extravagances will be a disservice to the whole country until the supply of scientists has been multiplied many times.

   • 1965, The Contemporary

     Of course, long before this reliable systems of meteorological sputniks, world-wide television sputniks, navigation sputniks, etc., will be created.

   • 1971, Shenandoah, volumes 9-10, page 4

     In Britain, before we had the news of the launching of the Russian and just now the American sputniks, we learned the news that American planes carrying H-bombs, which they could deliver on Russia at very short notice, are continuously in the air.

Derived terms

• Sputnik moment

Translations

Anagrams

• Stupnik, stink up, upknits

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• esputinique (rare)

Noun

sputnik m (plural sputniks)

1. sputnik (a Soviet robotic space satellite)

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