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• quarantine — ► NOUN ▪ a state or period of isolation for people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to contagious disease. ► VERB ▪ put in quarantine. ORIGIN originally denoting a period of forty days during which a widow who was… …   English terms 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 — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. detention, detainment, restraint, confinement, seclusion, segregation, sequestration, isolation; cordon sanitaire. v. t. detain, segregate, separate, isolate, sequester. See exclusion. II (Roget s IV) …   English dictionary for students

• quarantine — [[t]kwɒ̱rəntiːn, AM kwɔ͟ːr [/t]] quarantines, quarantining, quarantined 1) N UNCOUNT: oft in/into n If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they… …   English dictionary

• quarantine — noun a state, period, or place of isolation for people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to contagious disease. verb put in quarantine. Word History Quarantine entered English in the 16th century, coming from Italian… …   English new terms dictionary

• 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

• quarantine — n. & v. n. 1 isolation imposed on persons or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to, and might spread, infectious or contagious disease. 2 the period of this isolation. v.tr. impose such isolation on, put in quarantine.… …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• Quarantine — Quar an*tine , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quarantined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quarantining}.] To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Quarantine (novel) — Quarantine is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan.Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment …   Wikipedia

• quarantine — quarantinable, adj. quarantiner, n. /kwawr euhn teen , kwor , kwawr euhn teen , kwor /, n., v., quarantined, quarantining. n. 1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. 2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or… …   Universalium