QUARANTINE

quarantine

(noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

quarantine

(noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

quarantine

(verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; “My dog was quarantined before he could live in England”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

quarantine (plural quarantines)

The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.

A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance.

Etymology 2

Noun

quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)

A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.

Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.

A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.

A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.

(by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.

A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.

(computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a computer virus are stored.

Verb

quarantine (third-person singular simple present quarantines, present participle quarantining, simple past and past participle quarantined)

To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

To put in isolation as if by quarantine

Source: Wiktionary

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Quar"an*tine, n. Etym: [F. quarantaine, OF. quaranteine, fr. F. quarante forty, L. quadraginta, akin to quattuor four, and E. four: cf. It. quarantina, quarentine. See Four, and cf. Quadragesima.]

1. A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.

2. 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.

Note: Quarantine is now applied also to any forced stoppage of travel or communication on account of malignant contagious disease, on land as well as by sea.

3. (Eng. Law)

Definition: The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.

Quar`an*tine", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quarantined; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarantining.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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