Meaning of "infect" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INFECT

From Latin inficere to dip into, stain, from facere to make.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF INFECT

infect  [ɪnˈfɛkt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFECT

Infect is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb infect in English.

WHAT DOES INFECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Infection

Infection is the invasion of a host organism's body tissues by disease-causing organisms, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce. Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism. Infections are caused by infectious agents such as viruses, viroids, and prions, microorganisms such as bacteria, nematodes such as roundworms and pinworms, arthropods such as ticks, mites, fleas, and lice, fungi such as ringworm, and other macroparasites such as tapeworms. Hosts can fight infections using their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response. Pharmaceuticals can also help fight infections. The branch of medicine that focuses on infections and pathogens is infectious disease medicine.

Definition of infect in the English dictionary

The first definition of infect in the dictionary is to cause infection in; contaminate with pathogenic microorganisms. Other definition of infect is to affect or become affected with a communicable disease. Infect is also to taint, pollute, or contaminate.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INFECT

PRESENT

Present

I infect

you infect

he/she/it infects

we infect

you infect

they infect

Present continuous

I am infecting

you are infecting

he/she/it is infecting

we are infecting

you are infecting

they are infecting

Present perfect

I have infected

you have infected

he/she/it has infected

we have infected

you have infected

they have infected

Present perfect continuous

I have been infecting

you have been infecting

he/she/it has been infecting

we have been infecting

you have been infecting

they have been infecting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I infected

you infected

he/she/it infected

we infected

you infected

they infected

Past continuous

I was infecting

you were infecting

he/she/it was infecting

we were infecting

you were infecting

they were infecting

Past perfect

I had infected

you had infected

he/she/it had infected

we had infected

you had infected

they had infected

Past perfect continuous

I had been infecting

you had been infecting

he/she/it had been infecting

we had been infecting

you had been infecting

they had been infecting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will infect

you will infect

he/she/it will infect

we will infect

you will infect

they will infect

Future continuous

I will be infecting

you will be infecting

he/she/it will be infecting

we will be infecting

you will be infecting

they will be infecting

Future perfect

I will have infected

you will have infected

he/she/it will have infected

we will have infected

you will have infected

they will have infected

Future perfect continuous

I will have been infecting

you will have been infecting

he/she/it will have been infecting

we will have been infecting

you will have been infecting

they will have been infecting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would infect

you would infect

he/she/it would infect

we would infect

you would infect

they would infect

Conditional continuous

I would be infecting

you would be infecting

he/she/it would be infecting

we would be infecting

you would be infecting

they would be infecting

Conditional perfect

I would have infect

you would have infect

he/she/it would have infect

we would have infect

you would have infect

they would have infect

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been infecting

you would have been infecting

he/she/it would have been infecting

we would have been infecting

you would have been infecting

they would have been infecting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you infect
we let´s infect
you infect

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to infect

Past participle

infected

Present Participle

infecting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «INFECT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «infect» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of infect

affect · contaminate · corrupt · defile · dirty · disturb · foul · influence · move · overcome · poison · pollute · stir · taint · touch · upset · vitiate

TRANSLATION OF INFECT

Find out the translation of infect to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of infect from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infect» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 使感染有害菌
• Translator English - Spanish: infectar
• English: infect
• Translator English - Hindi: संक्रमित
• Translator English - Arabic: إصابة
• Translator English - Russian: заразить
• Translator English - Portuguese: infeccionar
• Translator English - Bengali: সংক্রামিত করা
• Translator English - French: contaminer
• Translator English - Malay: Menjangkiti
• Translator English - German: infizieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 感染する
• Translator English - Korean: 감염시키다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nginfeksi
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lây nhiễm
• Translator English - Tamil: பாதிப்பை
• Translator English - Marathi: संसर्ग
• Translator English - Turkish: bulaştırmak
• Translator English - Italian: contaminare
• Translator English - Polish: zainfekować
• Translator English - Ukrainian: заразити
• Translator English - Romanian: infecta
• Translator English - Greek: μολύνει
• Translator English - Afrikaans: besmet
• Translator English - Swedish: infektera
• Translator English - Norwegian: infisere

7 QUOTES WITH «INFECT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word infect.

1

Bonnie Bassler

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

2

Shane Carruth

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

3

Jeane Kirkpatrick

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

4

Hubert Selby, Jr.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

5

Peter Stuyvesant

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

6

Nathan Wolfe

The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.

7

Nathan Wolfe

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFECT»

Discover the use of infect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The anaerobic bacteria : their activities in nature and ...

Burke, G.S. Jour. Infect. Diseases 32: 433-438, 1923 Burke, G.S. Jour. Infect. Diseases 35: 274-284, 1923 Callow, A.B. Jour. Path, and Bact. 26: 320-325, 1923 Coleman, G.E. Jour. Infect. Diseases 33: 384-390, 1923 DeBord, G.G. Jour. Bact.

Leland Swint MacClung, 1982

Antibiotic Essentials 2010

N Engl J Med 346:1723–1731, 2002. Chiou CC, Does Penicillin Remain the Drug of Choice for Pneumococcal Pneumonia in View of Emerging in Vitro Resistance? Clin Infect Dis 42:234–7, 2006. Cieslak TJ, Christopher GW, Kortepeter MG, ...

Burke A. Cunha, 2010

Infectious Diseases of Zimbabwe

Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004 Jan ;23(1 Suppl):S25-32. 3. Clin Microbiol Rev 2006 Jul ;19(3):546-57. 4. CurrOpin Infect Dis 2005 Apr ;18(2):141-6. 5. J Infect Dis 2005 Feb 1;191(3):382-6. 6. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Mar ;9(3):372-5. 7. Emerg Infect ...

Stephen A. Berger, 2010

Psycho Bio Int Hiv Infect

4. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL. AND. PSYCHIATRIC. ASPECTS. OF. HIV. INFECTION. Gayle Neufeld Robert A. Bornstein Very early in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Type I (HIV) epidemic, various neurological, psychiatric, and ...

Nott, 2000

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases: ...

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2002;23:568-572. White RD. Individual patient rooms in the N ICU - an evolving concept. I Perinatol 2003;23(Suppl 1): $22-$24. Buttery IP, Alabaster SI, Heine RG, et al. Multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa  ...

Sarah S. Long, Larry K. Pickering, Charles G. Prober, 2012

Antifungal Agents: Advances and Problems

Infect. Dis. 23, 964 (1996). 341 D. Armstrong: Clin. Infect. Dis. 16, 1-10 (1993). 342 E. Presterl and W. Graninger: Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 13, 347 ( 1994). 343 C. Fasano, J. O'Keeffe and D. Gibbs: Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis.

Ernst Jucker, 2003

Essentials of Clinical Mycology

Clin Infect Dis. 2003;36:1329–31. 46. Chetchotisakd P, Sungkanuparph S, Thinkhamrop B, Mootsikapun P, Boonyaprawit P. A multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of primary cryptococcal meningitis prophylaxis in ...

Carol A. Kauffman, Peter G. Pappas, Jack D. Sobel, 2011

Infectious Diseases of Haiti

Curr Opin Infect Dis 2008 Feb ;21(1):65-9. 7. Lancet 1980 Dec 6;2(8206):1217- 21. 8. Pediatr Infect Dis 1986 Nov-Dec;5(6 Suppl):S258-61. 9. Pediatr Infect Dis 1986 Nov-Dec;5(6 Suppl):S262-5. 10. Trans Assoc Am Physicians 1981 ;94:261- 6.

GIDEON Informatics Inc, Steve Berger MD, 2010

Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease: Neonatology ...

AmJ Infect Control. 2002;30(7):381-385. Talon D, Menget P, Thouverez M, et al. Emergence of Enterobacter cloacae as a common pathogen in neonatal units: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis. J Hosp Infect. 2004;57(2):119-125. v Dijk ...

Robin K. Ohls, Akhil Maheshwari, 2012

The Lectins: Properties, Functions, and Applications in ...

Immun. 34, 980. Fader, R. C., and Davis, C. P. (1980). Infect. Immun. 30, 554— 561. Fader, R. C., Duffy, L. K., Davis, C. P., and Kurosky, A. (1982). J. Biol. Chem. 257, 3301— 3305. Faris, A., Lindahl, M., and Wastrom, T. (1980). FEMS Microbiol .

Irvin Liener, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFECT»

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Are We Making Progress on ID Predictions for 2015? - Medscape

At the start of the year, Dr John Bartlett made nine predictions for the field of infectious diseases in 2015, ranging from Ebola to epidemics. «Medscape, Jul 15»

Intestinal parasites are a common cause of diarrhoea in cats

Giardia infect small intestines and were the most commonly found parasite with more than 12 per cent positive samples. The parasites are ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»

Why is lobster so gosh-darn expensive? - Business Insider

This can infect people and make them sick if the lobster isn't cooked right away. If the lobster dies long before it is cooked, then the bacteria has ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»

Scientists Figure Out How Mosquitoes Always Manage To Find …

... Nile virus, and many other dangerous illnesses are spread around the globe by mosquitoes, which are able to infect victims with little notice. «Tech Times, Jul 15»

Failure to disclose HIV-positive status is a felony that leads to a …

... how HIV is actually transmitted and don't stop HIV from spreading, rather just relocating it to prisons, where it will continue to infect people. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Mosquito found in northwest Fresno that can transmit chikungunya …

... by a mosquito, which then could infect others. The tropical diseases transmitted by the A. aegypti mosquito have symptoms that include fever, ... «Fresno Bee, Jul 15»

Calgary police sought software to hack phones, computers | Calgary …

During the three-hour demonstration, Sergio Rodriguez-Solis writes that he showed investigators how the software could infect Android and ... «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»

Cholesterol metabolism in immune cells linked to HIV progression …

... even without antiretroviral therapy, because their APCs do not effectively trans infect T cells. These people are known as "nonprogressors. «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»

How fetal tissue is used for medicine | What's Going Around - Home

Because it would be unethical to infect people and study disease in them, she and her colleagues plan to work with lab mice that have an ... «KSPR, Jul 15»

POMONA: Viva Pomona returns with Spits and Prayers: Blog: Audio …

Last year's “Gothic Summer” EP has a killer title track that continues to infect people, and the duo worked on its new album, “Young Gods,” with ... «Press-Enterprise, Jul 15»