Usually means: Isolation to prevent disease spread.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarantine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quarantine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quarantine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quarantine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quarantine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quarantine, quarantine: Wordnik
  7. quarantine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quarantine: Wiktionary
  9. quarantine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quarantine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quarantine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quarantine: Dictionary.com
  13. quarantine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quarantine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quarantine (Crace novel), Quarantine (Egan novel), Quarantine (Greg Egan novel), Quarantine (Jim Crace novel), Quarantine (Laurel Halo album), Quarantine (Red Dwarf), Quarantine (The Twilight Zone), Quarantine (computing), Quarantine (disambiguation), Quarantine (film), Quarantine (game), Quarantine (novel), Quarantine (video game), Quarantine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quarantine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quarantine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quarantine: Rhymezone
  19. quarantine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quarantine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quarantine: Free Dictionary
  22. quarantine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quarantine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Quarantine: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  5. quarantine: Legal dictionary
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Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quarantine: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. quarantine: Netlingo
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  4. quarantine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
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  6. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  7. quarantine: Medical dictionary
  8. Quarantine: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. quarantine: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A period of 40 days, particularly
noun:  (historical law) 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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
noun:  A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
noun:  (politics, figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
noun:  (computing, 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..
noun:  (computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
verb:  (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
verb:  (intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) Synonym of isolate more generally.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) Synonym of restrict.
noun:  (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation
noun:  (Christianity, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho. [(dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation]

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