QUARANTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quarantine mean? 

• QUARANTINE (noun)
  The noun QUARANTINE has 2 senses:

1. enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

2. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

  Familiarity information: QUARANTINE used as a noun is rare.

• QUARANTINE (verb)
  The verb QUARANTINE has 1 sense:

1. place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons

  Familiarity information: QUARANTINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARANTINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("quarantine" is a kind of...):

isolation (a state of separation between persons or groups)

Derivation:

quarantine (place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("quarantine" is a kind of...):

closing off; isolation (the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others)

Derivation:

quarantine (place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons)

• QUARANTINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quarantine    ... he / she / it quarantines   
Past simple: quarantined   
Past participle: quarantined   
-ing form: quarantining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

My dog was quarantined before he could live in England

Hypernyms (to "quarantine" is one way to...):

insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

quarantine (isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease)

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

 Context examples 

The resource provides direction on appropriate techniques, strains or animal models to use in research protocols, maintains a pathogen-free environment, health surveillance, quarantine, full-panel testing and genetic monitoring for experimental animals.

(Laboratory Animal Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

For the study, 201 healthy adults were quarantined, experimentally exposed to a virus that causes a common cold and monitored for five days for the development of a respiratory illness.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Laboratory Animal Health and Quality Control Shared Resource provides the primary conventional services including experimental animals health monitoring, maintenance of an specific pathogen free colonies, diagnostic services, disease elimination program, strict quarantine procedures, teaching and training for investigators and their technicians, consultation with investigators, and technical services.

(Laboratory Animal Health and Quality Control Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings of the 'Biorisk' experiment are not only of significant scientific interest, but also invaluable from the practical point of view for the justification of the planetary quarantine strategy during future interplanetary flights, the report said.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)