immunity
im·mu·nity (i myo̵̅o̅n′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- exemption or freedom from something burdensome or otherwise unpleasant, as a legal obligation
- resistance to or protection against a specified disease; power to resist infection, esp. as a result of antibody formation
Etymology: ME ynmunite < OFr immunité < L immunitas, freedom from public service < immunis: see immune
immunity
n.
Exemption
freedom, privilege, license; see freedom 2.Freedom from disease
resistance, immunization, protection, active immunity, passive immunity; see also safety 1, vaccination 2. See syn. study at exemption.
n
- An exemption from a duty or penalty.
- A permanent status, as for a diplomat, exempting one from being sued or prosecuted for certain actions.
- A special status, granted by a prosecutor, exempting a witness from being prosecuted for the acts to which he or she testifies.
sovereign immunity
transactional immunity
use immunity
Preposition: from
- prosecution: Crown Immunity Limited immunity from prosecution given to certain arms of the state in specific circumstances.
- punishment: Immunity from punishment was secured through the absence of local law.
Converse of object
- confer: Medical school education is likely to confer lifelong immunity 1.
- mediate: Research Patricia's main research interest is the study of T cell mediated immunity.
- lower: The elderly often suffer from poor circulation and lowered immunity and Ginkgo works well on both counts.
- induce: In other words, it seems that breast-feeding induces local immunity in the urinary tract.
- boost: In fact, being a carrier helps boost natural immunity.
- pre-exist: Because the virus is new, the human immune system will have no pre-existing immunity.
Adjective modifier
- cell-mediated: Cell-mediated immunity in horses with sarcoid tumors against sarcoid cells in vitro.
- innate: Prof Luke O'Neill provided a keynote talk on the functioning of innate immunity at the mucosal barrier.
- humoral: It is the phenomenon of humoral immunity that makes immunization possible.
- mucosal: Its expression is especially high in the Paneth cells in the small intestine, which play a major role in the mucosal immunity.
- diplomatic: Seagoon: You mean... Bloodnok: Yes, I have diplomatic immunity!
- sovereign: The King's preliminary challenge, on the grounds of sovereign immunity, was upheld.
Noun used with modifier
- anti-trust: Star Alliance members Air Canada, Lufthansa German Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and United Airlines currently hold anti-trust immunity.
- herd: The findings implied benefits for herd immunity from natural infection against herpes zoster in adults.
- T-cell: T-cell immunity is known to be important in maintaining VZV in a latent state.
- blanket: The first possible solution is blanket immunity for ISP activities.
- crown: We also welcome the proposal to remove crown immunity.
- noise: If you still have problems with noise immunity check the supply voltage.
The greatest deliberative body in the worldhas too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
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