Quarantine
['kwɒrəntiːn] or ['kwɔrən'tin]
Definition
(noun.) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease.
(noun.) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease.
(verb.) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; 'My dog was quarantined before he could live in England'.
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
(n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
(n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
(v. t.) 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.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
n. a forced abstinence from communication with the shore which ships are compelled to undergo when they are last from some port where certain infectious diseases are raging—the time originally forty days: (coll.) the isolation of a person house district &c. afflicted with or recovering from contagious disease.—v.t. to prohibit from intercourse from fear of infection.—adj. Quarantin′able admitting of or controlled by quarantine.—Quarantine flag a yellow flag displayed by a ship to signify the presence on board of contagious disease.
Checker: Maisie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in quarantine, denotes that you will be placed in a disagreeable position by the malicious intriguing of enemies.
Checked by Keith
Examples
- I never was like this but twice over in the quarantine yonder; and both times you found me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As we marched along, we began to get over our fears, and ceased to care much about quarantine scouts or any body else. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My immediate comrade and I talked in an undertone about quarantine laws and their penalties, but we found nothing cheering in the subject. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And yet there are people who say quarantine is no good! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ship could wait only a little while because of the quarantine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Quarantine Ground. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They do not quarantine the cars, no matter where they got their passengers from. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is said that we shall probably be quarantined at Naples. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ship is lying here in the harbor of Naples--quarantined. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If the authorities of New York had known how badly we had it, they would have quarantined us here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It had long ago been decided in a noisy public meeting in the main cabin that we could not go to Lisbon, because we must surely be quarantined there. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Wyatt