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# vaccine

«vaccine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a medicine, usually given as an injection, that teaches…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a vaccine, vaccines)

### meaning for a pupil

A vaccine is a medicine, usually given as an injection, that teaches your body to fight a particular disease, so you do not get very ill from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons, a vaccine contains a harmless weak, dead or partial form of a germ (or instructions to copy part of it); your immune system learns to recognise it and makes antibodies, so it is ready if the real germ comes. Vaccines have nearly wiped out diseases like polio and ended smallpox. Edward Jenner made the first vaccine, against smallpox, from cowpox. Children get vaccines (jabs, shots) against measles, mumps, whooping cough and others. Phrases: «get a vaccine», «flu vaccine», «have a jab» (UK), «get a shot» (USA).

### examples

- I had a vaccine at the doctor's, and it only hurt for a second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x1)
- The flu vaccine is given every year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x2)
- A vaccine trains your body to fight a disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x3)
- Smallpox disappeared thanks to a vaccine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x4)
- Edward Jenner made the first vaccine over two hundred years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x5)
- Scientists test vaccines carefully before people use them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x6)
- Some vaccines are given as a nasal spray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x7)
- Vaccines protect other people too, like babies who are too young to have them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/#x8)

### note

Plural vaccines. Related: vaccinate (verb), vaccination (noun). Informal: «jab» (UK, Australia), «shot» (USA). A vaccine prevents a disease; it is not a cure for one you already have. Myth: vaccines do not cause autism; this has been checked in very large studies.

### In the corpora

- [Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/5/)
- [Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796 from cowpox, and smallpox was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines/9/)
- [Once a person is ill with rabies it almost always kills, but vaccine given quickly after a bite stops it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/12/)
- [The sting lasts a second, and the vaccine protects him from serious illnesses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/291-handling-anger-and-fear/8/)
- [Smallpox, which once killed millions, was wiped out completely in 1980 thanks to vaccines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vaccine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vaccine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.