infecting
present participle ofinfect
| 单词 | infecting |
| 释义 | infecting present participle ofinfect infect verb[T] uk/ɪnˈfekt/us/ɪnˈfekt/infectverb[T](DISEASE)C1 topassadiseaseto aperson,animal, orplant: ThewardwasfullofchildreninfectedwithTB. All thetomatoplantsare infected with avirus. C2 If aplace,wound, orsubstanceis infected, itcontainsbacteriaor other things that cancausedisease: Themeathad been infected by Ecolibacteria. Passing on illness & causing disease
infectverb[T](FEELING)to make someone have the samefeelingoremotionas you: Heroptimismseemedto infect all those around her. Feelings - general words
infectverb[T](COMPUTERS)C1 topassharmfulprogramsfrom onecomputerto another, or withinfilesin the samecomputer: Acomputervirusmaylurkunseenin a computer'smemory,callingup and infecting each of the machine'sdatafilesinturn. Computer programming & software
Examplesofinfectinginfecting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Thus, a snail might easily go a decade and more without adding or losinginfectingspecies. From theCambridge English Corpus The first intermediate hosts in trematode life cycles serve as a means to asexually increase the number of clones available forinfectingsubsequent hosts. From theCambridge English Corpus Part of the observed variability ofinfectinglevels between samples could also be associated with temporal changes. From theCambridge English Corpus For patient no. 2, theinfectingstrains from the candidiasis stage in 1999 and colonizing strains collected in 2001 and 2002 had y87 % relatedness. From theCambridge English Corpus The unit approach to cycle avoidance is potentially more accurate, but at the expense ofinfectinginterfaces with complex dependency information. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, parasites may avoid being eaten by cleaners byinfectingfish at times when predators are scarce. From theCambridge English Corpus Epidemiological processes appear to be the most parsimonious explanation for the diversity, abundance and distribution of ectoparasite speciesinfectingfish. From theCambridge English Corpus These raise the issue of the host specificity of the parasiteinfectingthe cleaner and whether such parasites actually persist on the cleaner. From theCambridge English Corpus This indicates that the dependence is not the rule for dixenous cestodesinfectingrodents as definitive hosts. From theCambridge English Corpus It also favors the isolation of infected secretions, reducing the possibility of one lunginfectingthe other. From theCambridge English Corpus Hosts might be expected to differentiate betweeninfectingparasites (in terms of, say, pathogenicity) in determining the level of immune response to each. From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, future phylogeny studies need to investigate the viral strainsinfectingboth the fox and dog populations within this region. From theCambridge English Corpus This is not what we would expect if there were only one speciesinfectingcockles. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, further studies are needed on acanthocephalansinfectingintermediate hosts, which inhabit different ecological conditions. From theCambridge English Corpus The isolates derived from hippoboscid flies and mosquitoes are most likely also avian trypanosomesinfectingbirds other than the studied raptors. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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