FromLatininiectus, injectus, participle ofiniciō, injiciō(“I throw in”), fromin- +iaciō(“I throw”).
inject (third-person singular simple presentinjects,present participleinjecting,simple past and past participleinjected)
- (transitive) Topush orpump (something, especially fluids) into acavity orpassage.
The nurseinjected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
- (transitive) Tointroduce (something) suddenly or violently.
Punkinjected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
- (transitive) To administer aninjection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
Now lie back while weinject you with the anesthetic.
toinject the blood vessels
- (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
It's been a week since I stoppedinjecting, and I'm still in withdrawal.
- (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existingprogram or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a securityvulnerability.
1996 November 11, David Taillé <taille@calva.net>, “Getting Process information”, incomp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32[1] (Usenet), message-ID <MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr>: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).
1999 August 23, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein <osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br>, “Java is Going to Be the Death of Java”, incomp.lang.java.advocacy[2] (Usenet),message-ID <001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr>:As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes toinject code, it's going to be a disaster.
2003, Ryan Russell, “The Thief No One Saw”, inStealing the Network: How to Own the Box[3],→ISBN, page146:A quick test to see if I caninject SQL data is to enter my username and password as'a.
2007, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “XSS Theory”, inXSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense[4],→ISBN, page86:DOM XSS is an unusual method forinjecting JavaScript into a user's browser.
2010, Andrew Moore, “AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It”, inVisual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies[5],→ISBN, page410:The AJAX controlsinject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw; used withon.
- (transitive) Tointroduce oradd (something that is different or foreign).
inject something into orbit
inject some spice into my life
1960, Antonio Candido Pedroso Gamitto,King Kazembe and the Marave, Cheva, Bisa, Bemba, Lunda, and Other Peoples of Southern Africa, page10: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 toinject some much needed light relief among the difficulties and privations of the journey.
2009, Ilsa Evans,The Family Tree, page25:Although you must admit that'dinject some spice into my life.
2019, Anja Nakarada Pecujlic, Matteo Tugnoli·,Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers, page132:Launchers caninject in orbit several satellites per launch since LEO and MEO satellites are usually smaller than GEO satellites.
2021, Colin Baker, Wayne E. Wright,Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism:Someone with a rudimentary knowledge of a language mayinject words of that new language into sentences to indicate a desire to identify and affiliate.
to push or pump something in
to introduce something suddenly or violently
to administer an injection to
to take or be administered something by means of injection
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