quarantine
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quar·an·tine
[kwawr-uh
n-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-] noun, verb, quar·an·tined, quar·an·tin·ing. 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.
verb (used with object)
10.
to put in or subject to quarantine.
11.
to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
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Origin:
1600–10; < Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, orig. Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty ≪ Latin quadrāgintā
1600–10; < Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, orig. Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty ≪ Latin quadrāgintā
Related forms
quar·an·tin·a·ble, adjective
quar·an·tin·er, noun
pre·quar·an·tine, noun, verb (used with object), pre·quar·an·tined, pre·quar·an·tin·ing.
un·quar·an·tined, adjective
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quarantine (ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease |
| 2. | the place or area where such detention is enforced |
| 3. | any period or state of enforced isolation |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to isolate in or as if in quarantine |
| 5. | (Austral) to withhold (a portion of a welfare payment) from a person or group of people |
| [C17: from Italian quarantina period of forty days, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadrāgintā] | |
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Word Origin & History
quarantine
1520s, "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 four). Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease
is kept in isolation" is 1660s, 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 late 14c.). The extended sense of "any period of isolation" is from 1680.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
quarantine quar·an·tine (kwôr'ən-tēn')
n.
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.
A place for such detention.
Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
A condition of enforced isolation.
A period of 40 days.
To isolate in or as if in quarantine.
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American Heritage
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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Example sentences
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease.
Quarantine and isolation seem to have snuffed out the flames for now.
Those who take advantage of this may have a period of quarantine from public life.
We've got to have a way to get food to them and to make sure they're obeying the quarantine orders.
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