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quarantinable

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quar⋅an⋅tine

  [kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-] noun, verb, -tined, -tin⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
3. a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
4. the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures.
5. a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained.
6. the detention or isolation enforced.
7. the place, esp. a hospital, where people are detained.
8. a period of 40 days.
9. social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state.
–verb (used with object)
10. to put in or subject to quarantine.
11. to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
Origin:
1600–10; < It quarantina, var. of quarantena, orig. Upper It (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, deriv. of quaranta forty ≪ L quadrāgintā

Related forms:
quar⋅an⋅tin⋅a⋅ble, adjective
quar⋅an⋅tin⋅er, noun
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quar·an·tine   (kwôr'ən-tēn', kwŏr'-)   
n.  

    1. A period of time during which a vehicle, person, or material suspected of carrying a contagious disease is detained at a port of entry under enforced isolation to prevent disease from entering a country.

    2. A place for such detention.

  2. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

  3. A condition of enforced isolation.

  4. A period of 40 days.

tr.v.   quar·an·tined, quar·an·tin·ing, quar·an·tines

  1. To isolate in or as if in quarantine.

  2. To isolate politically or economically.


[Italian quarantina, from quaranta (giorni), forty (days), from Latin quadrāgintā; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]
quar'an·tin'a·ble adj.
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Cultural Dictionary

quarantine [(kwawr-uhn-teen, kwahr-uhn-teen)]

The isolation of people who either have a contagious disease or have been exposed to one, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the disease.

Note: The term is sometimes used politically to designate the political and economic isolation of a nation in retribution for unacceptable policies: “When Iraq invaded Kuwait, it was placed in quarantine by the nations of the world.”
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Word Origin & History

quarantine 
1523, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from L. quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see quart). Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation" is 1663, from It. quarantina giorni, lit. "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from L. quadraginta. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced at Ragusa in 1377). The extended sense of "any period of isolation" is from 1680.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: quar·an·tin·able
Pronunciation: 'kwor-&n-"tE-n&-b&l, 'kwär-
Function: adjective
: subject to orconstituting grounds for quarantine quarantinable disease>

Main Entry: 2quarantine
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -tined; -tin·ing
transitive senses
: to detain in or exclude byquarantine quarantine intransitive senses
: to establish or declare a quarantine
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

quarantine quar·an·tine (kwôr'ən-tēn')
n.

  1. A period of time during which a vehicle, person, or material suspected of carrying a contagious disease is detained at a port of entry under enforced isolation to prevent disease from entering a country.

  2. A place for such detention.

  3. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

  4. A condition of enforced isolation.

  5. A period of 40 days.

v. quar·an·tined, quar·an·tin·ing, quar·an·tines
To isolate in or as if in quarantine.

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