keep in quarantine

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• quarantine — quar‧an‧tine [ˈkwɒrəntiːn ǁ ˈkwɔː ] noun [uncountable] when an animal or food product is kept apart from others in case it is carrying a disease, especially when it has just entered a country: • The exotic species will be kept in quarantine until …   Financial and business terms

• keep — vb 1 Keep, observe, celebrate, solemnize, commemorate are comparable when they mean to pay proper attention or honor to something prescribed, obligatory, or demanded (as by one s nationality, religion, or rank), but they vary widely in their… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• quarantine — [n] isolation detention, lazaretto, seclusion, segregation, separation, sequestration; concepts 135,188,388,631 quarantine [v] isolate block off, close off, confine, cordon, detach, insulate, keep apart, remove, restrict, seal off, seclude,… …   New thesaurus

• quarantine — [kwôr′ən tēn, kwär′ən tēn΄] n. [It quarantina, lit., space of forty days < quaranta, forty < L quadraginta < base of quattuor,FOUR] 1. a) the period, orig. 40 days, during which an arriving vessel suspected of carrying contagious disease …   English World dictionary

• Quarantine — For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation) Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century… …   Wikipedia

• Quarantine (2008 film) — Infobox Film name = Quarantine caption = Theatrical release poster director =John Erick Dowdle producer = Roy Lee Doug Davison Sergio Aguero Drew Dowdl Carlos Fernández [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082868/synopsis Quarantine (2008) – Synopsis ]… …   Wikipedia

• quarantine — I UK [ˈkwɒrəntiːn] / US [ˈkwɔrənˌtɪn] noun Word forms quarantine : singular quarantine plural quarantines a) [uncountable] a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that… …   English dictionary

• quarantine — quar|an|tine1 [ kwɔrən,tin ] noun uncount a situation in which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept separate from other people or animals so that they do not catch the disease: in quarantine: Animals can be kept in quarantine for… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• quarantine — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ strict VERB + QUARANTINE ▪ enforce ▪ keep sb/sth in, put sb/sth in QUARANTINE + NOUN ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• quarantine — quar|an|tine1 [ˈkwɔrənti:n US ˈkwo: ] n [U] [Date: 1600 1700; : Italian; Origin: quarantina period of forty days , from Old French, from quarante forty , from Latin quadraginta] a period of time when a person or animal is kept apart from others… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• quarantine — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow, alien, apartheid, apartness, beleaguer, beleaguerment, beset, besetment, besiege, blockade, blockading, bolt, bound, box in, cage, chamber, circumscription, close in, color bar, compass, confinement, contain …   Moby Thesaurus