Inject
[ɪn'dʒekt] or [ɪn'dʒɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) give an injection to; 'We injected the glucose into the patient's vein'.
(verb.) to introduce (a new aspect or element); 'He injected new life into the performance'.
(verb.) feed intravenously.
(verb.) take by injection; 'inject heroin'.
(verb.) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; 'inject hydrogen into the balloon'.
Typist: Maura--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.
(v. t.) Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.
(v. t.) To cast or throw; -- with on.
(v. t.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Throw in, dart in.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EJECT]
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Definition
v.t. to throw into: to cast on: to make to pass in or into.—ns. Injec′tion act of injecting or throwing in or into: the act of filling the vessels of an animal body with any liquid: a liquid to be injected into any part of the body; Injec′tor one who injects: something used for injecting especially an apparatus by which a stream of water is forced into a steam-boiler.
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Examples
- Inject under the skin of the arms, legs, and over the stomach every hour until the symptoms are relieved. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In order to do that you must inject by the aorta, by means of a force pump, so as to send the liquid into all the interstices of the flesh. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Add a tablespoonful to a pint of water and inject night and morning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dissolve a teaspoonful in one pint of water and inject three times a day. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Moreover, he put granite in the same cat egory, and believed it had been injected, as also metalliferous veins, in liquid st ate into the stratified rocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Let anyone of these issues be injected into his campaign and the lines of party action would be cut athwart. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- G is a pipe that leads the injected water to the boiler. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It should be injected by the aorta in the usual way before injecting with the red wax. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- E is a diverging tube which receives the water injected by the jet of steam that condenses at I, and imparts to the water a portion of its speed in proportion to the pressure of the boiler. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Special provision was also made for injecting streams of pulverized coal in such manner as to create the largely extended zone of combustion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are applied either by immersion, coating, injecting, vapors, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It should be injected by the aorta in the usual way before injecting with the red wax. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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