- under quarantine
- cannot leave the house, isolated, imprisoned
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
under quarantine
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quarantine — [kwôr′ən tēn, kwär′ən tēn΄] n. [It quarantina, lit., space of forty days < quaranta, forty < L quadraginta < base of quattuor,FOUR] 1. a) the period, orig. 40 days, during which an arriving vessel suspected of carrying contagious disease … English World dictionary
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Quarantine — The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine as one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed, for example,… … Medical dictionary
quarantine — I. noun Etymology: partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from Latin quadraginta, from quadra (akin to quattuor four) + ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine … New Collegiate Dictionary
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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
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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
