Meaning of Quarantine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.
   alt-of, obsolete
2. Synonym of Mount of Temptation.
   dated
3. A period of 40 days, particularly
   countable, uncountable
4. The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
   countable, historical, uncountable
6. A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
   countable, historical, uncountable
7. A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
   countable, uncountable
8. A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
   countable, uncountable
10. A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
12. The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“Now the Question seems to lye thus, where lay the Seeds of the Infection all this while? How came it to stop so long, and not stop any longer? Either the Distemper did not come immediately by Contagion from Body to Body, or if it did, then a Body may be capable to continue infected, without the Disease discovering itself, many Days, nay Weeks together, even not a Quarantine of Days only, but Soixantine, not only 40 Days but 60 Days or longer.”

“Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.”

“Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.”

“Forty days, called the King's quarantain, were allowed the friends or relations of a principal in a private war to grant or find security.”

“The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.”

“From Toulon... Our Gallyes which were upon the point of finishing their Quarantaine, and entering into this Port, have been hindred from it by th'arrival of three others that were out a roaming.”

“Making of all ships coming from thence... to perform their Quarantine (for 30 days as Sir Richard Browne expressed it... contrary to the import of the word; though in the general acceptation, it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it).”

“This dreadful malady might be annihilated by making all the dogs in Great Britain perform a kind of quarantine, by shutting them up for a certain number of weeks.”

“The lady stared; but a single question elicited the fatal truth—the vessel was under quarantine, and once on board there was no quitting it.”

“‘... these people are always howling. Never happy otherwise... the French people. They’re always at it. As to Marseilles, we know what Marseilles is. It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. It couldn’t exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other—victory or death, or blazes, or something.’ ‘Allong and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting ‘em up in quarantine!’ ‘Tiresome enough,’ said the other.”

“The lepers often sought a voluntary death as the only escape from their perpetual quarantine.”

“Formerly great stress was laid on the value of quarantine; all plant imports were grown in a quarantine ground under the supervision of a Government botanist until it was certain that they had no disease.”

“2. Tsai called on the public not to incite hatred or blame others for the epidemic. She then offered thanks to everyone who has dutifully followed home quarantine and self-health management protocols.”

“Now treating Sandwich seems the fittest choice For Spain, there to condole and to rejoyce: He meets the French, but to avoid all harms, Slips into Groine, Embassies bears no Arms. There let him languish a long Quarrentine, And ne're to England come, till he be clean.”

“What I wish to put under Quarantine are family events—& all allusion thereto past—present—or to come.”

“They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt.”

“When a great power establishes diplomatic quarantine against them it is well not to go too far on a course on which they appear to be embarking with a light heart.”

“President Roosevelt today challenged the effectiveness of a policy of neutrality in keeping the United States at peace and advocated instead a collective ‘quarantine’ of aggressor nations.”

“To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carries.”

“Also included is Canary, a ‘quarantine’ program for use as a sample to test for a virus by pairing it with new or suspect programs.”

“At least one expert says... that a quarantine can be futile if the software is infected with a time-activated virus.”

“If they click on the link then they're added to your approved senders list and their message is moved to your inbox; if they don't, the message stays in quarantine.”

“By yonde ys a wyldernys of quarentyne, Wher Cryst wyth fastyng hys body dyd pyne; In that holy place, as we rede, The deuyl wold had of stonys bred.”

“Than turned we vp in to Quarantene”

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