vaccines
- 1Plural of vaccine.
The clinic offers free vaccines for travelers heading abroad.
New vaccines were developed within months of the outbreak.
Note
A plural that counts two different things: separate preparations, as when a clinic stocks vaccines against several diseases, or individual doses given to many people. Because the singular also works as a mass noun, English can say supplies of vaccine as easily as supplies of vaccines. The mass form treats the substance as one category, while the plural keeps kinds or doses apart. The figurative software sense, an antivirus, pluralizes the same way.
vaccines is a form of vaccine
vaccine, noun: A preparation given to make the body produce antibodies and gain immunity to a disease without causing the disease itself, made from the disease agent, a safer related form, or a synthetic substitute. Full entry
- Forms
- vaccinevaccines plural
- Spelling
- vaccine → vaccines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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