quarantine

noun11

1. •
   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.

   • The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
2. •
   (historical) 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.
3. •
   (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.

   • What I wish to put under Quarantine are family events—& all allusion thereto past—present—or to come. — 1816
4. •
   (informal) A period of time where people are not allowed to leave their homes to contain the spread of an infectious disease.
5. •
   (figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.

   • 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. — 1891
6. •
   (figurative) 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.

   • 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. — 1988
7. •
   (figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.

   • 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. — 2004
8. •
   A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.

   • They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt. — 1806
9. •
   A period of 40 days.
10. •
    (historical) 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.
11. •
    (historical) 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.

    • 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. — 1728

verb5

1. •
   To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.

   • Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
2. •
   To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.

   • International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
3. •
   (figurative) Synonym of isolate more generally.

   • J.F.K. "quarantined" Cuba rather than blockading it to avoid needless escalation of the conflict.
4. •
   (figurative) Synonym of restrict.

   • Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle? — 1850
5. •
   (no longer used) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.

   • It has just been announced that Norfolk, Va., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis. — 1879

noun1

1. •
   (old-fashioned) Synonym of Mount of Temptation.

   • Than turned we vp in to Quarantene — 1500