immune
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English, from Middle French immun, from Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”), from in- (“not”) + mūnus (“service”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
immune (comparative more immune, superlative most immune)
- (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to.
- As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
- 2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire[2]:
- Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.
- (medicine, usually with "to") Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
- I am immune to chicken pox.
- (by extension) Not vulnerable.
- Alas, he was immune to my charms.
- 1959 June, “The opening of the Colchester-Walton-Clacton electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:
- [...] most of the original electrical signalling equipment has had to be replaced by apparatus immune to 50-cycle currents.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.
- We examined the patient's immune response.
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
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- acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- alloimmune
- auto-immune
- autoimmune
- cell-mediated immune response
- chemoimmune
- cryoimmune
- dysimmune
- gastrimmune
- gay-related immune deficiency
- hematoimmune
- heteroimmune
- homoimmune
- hyperimmune
- hypoimmune
- immune complex
- immune deficiency
- immune evasion, immunevasion
- immune privilege
- immune reaction
- immune response
- immune system
- lymphoimmune
- neuroimmune
- nonimmune
- osteoimmune
- pauci-immune
- postimmune
- radioimmune
- seroimmune
- unimmune
- xenoimmune
Translations edit
exempt from inclusion
protected due to innate resistance to pathogens
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not vulnerable
of or pertaining to the immune system
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Noun edit
immune (plural immunes)
- (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
- 1965, Rene J. Dubos, James G. Hirsch, editors, Bacterial and Mycotic Infections of Man[3], page 742:
- Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes.
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Verb edit
immune (third-person singular simple present immunes, present participle immuning, simple past and past participle immuned)
- (rare, transitive) To make immune.
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, In the Seventies:
- In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision […]
- 1905, American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal, volume 29, page 42:
- The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.
References edit
- “immune”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Immune system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
immune m or f (masculine and feminine plural immunes)
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Further reading edit
- “immune” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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immune
- inflection of immun:
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin immūnis (“exempt from public service”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
immune (plural immuni)
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Latin edit
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immūne
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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immune
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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immune