Quarantine

/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/ · noun

Meaning

A period of 40 days, particularly.

Definitions by Sense

1. A period of 40 days, particularly
2. A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
3. (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
4. A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
5. (politics, figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
6. (computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
7. (computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
8. (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.

Example Sentences

Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, even not a Quarantine of Days only, but Soixantine, not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer.

The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.

From Toulon... Our Gallyes which were upon the point of finishing their Quarantaine, and entering into this Port, have been hindred from it by th'arrival of three others that were out a roaming.

Making of all ships coming from thence... to perform their Quarantine (for 30 days as Sir Richard Browne expressed it... contrary to the import of the word; though in the general acceptation, it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it).

Formerly great stress was laid on the value of quarantine; all plant imports were grown in a quarantine ground under the supervision of a Government botanist until it was certain that they had no disease.

This dreadful malady might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain number of weeks.

The lady stared; but a single question elicited the fatal truth—the vessel was under quarantine, and once on board there was no quitting it.

‘... these people are always howling. Never happy otherwise... the French people. They’re always at it. As to Marseilles, we know what Marseilles is. It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. It couldn’t exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other—victory or death, or blazes, or something.’ ‘Allong and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting ‘em up in quarantine!’ ‘Tiresome enough,’ said the other.

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Word Forms

• quarantines
• Quarantine
• quarentine
• quarantin
• quaranteen
• quarantain
• quarantaine
• quarrentine
• quarantene
• quarentene
• quarentyne
• querentyne
• quarantining
• quarantined

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