inject
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin iniectus, injectus, participle of iniciō, injiciō (“to throw in”), from in- + iaciō (“I throw”).
Base: iaciō
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: injects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: injecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: injected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: injected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
gloss: To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.
gloss: To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.
to inject the blood vessels
gloss: To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It's been a week since I stopped injecting, and I'm still in withdrawal.
gloss: To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).
As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.
A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.
DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.
The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.
gloss: To cast or throw; used with on.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And mound inject on mound.
gloss: To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: inject something into orbit
inject some spice into my life
This passage seems unfortunately to have set the tone, among English writers, for comment on the expedition, and quite wrongly since Gamitto used his donkey to inject some much needed light relief among the difficulties and privations of the journey.
Although you must admit that'd inject some spice into my life.
Launchers can inject in orbit several satellites per launch since LEO and MEO satellites are usually smaller than GEO satellites.
Someone with a rudimentary knowledge of a language may inject words of that new language into sentences to indicate a desire to identify and affiliate.
Related words: injectable
injectal
injection
Derived words: agroinject
autoinjected
coinject
coinjected
coinjecting
electroinject
injectability
injectate
injectee
injectible
injectisome
injectite
injector
microinject
microinjecting
misinject
nanoinject
noninjected
noninjecting
optoinject
photoinject
preinjected
reinject
uninjected
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