Look up: quarantine

1. quarantine
   Legal restriction of the movement of plant pests (or the products that may be harboring them) into areas where they do not occur.
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2. Quarantine
   All operations associated with prevention of importation of unwanted organisms into a territory or that exportation from it e.g. the holding of imported material in isolation for a period to ensure freedom from diseases and pests.
   (1) A legal action in which there is a control on the import and export of plants to prevent spread of pathogens and pests; (2) Holding of imported plants in isolation for a period to ensure their freedom from diseases and plants.
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3. quarantine
   [Verb] To separate from other people to stop the spread of disease.
   Example: The patients were quarantined in a separate ward until the cause of their illness could be found out.
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4. quarantine
   [n] - enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease 2. [n] - isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease 3. [v] - place into enforce isolation, as for medical reasons
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5. Quarantine
   Quarantine: The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine was one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed. The list of quarantinable diseases in the US includes c...
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6. quarantine
   obligatory isolation of aeroplanes, ships or other transport coming from countries or areas infected with cholera, plague or yellow fever; Obligatory isolation of a person or animal suffering or returning from an area infected with a disease that is internationally quarantinable Category: Management in the public and private sector
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7. Quarantine
   Quar'an·tine noun [ French quarantaine , Old French quaranteine , from French quarante forty, Latin quadraginta , akin to quattuor four, and English four : confer Italian quarantina , quarentine
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8. Quarantine
   Quar`an·tine' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Quarantined ; present participle & verbal noun Quarantining .] To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without in...
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9. quarantine
   The limitation on the freedom of movement of an individual, to prevent spread of a disease to other members of a population. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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10. quarantine
    noun isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
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11. quarantine
    noun enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
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12. quarantine
    (kwor´әn-tēn) (kwahr´әn-tēn) restriction of freedom of movement of apparently well individuals who have been exposed to infectious disease, which is imposed for the usual maximal incubation period of the disease (quarantine period). quarantine period. th...
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13. Quarantine
    • (n.) 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...
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14. quarantine
    the detention or restraint of humans or other creatures that may have come into contact with communicable disease until it is deemed certain that ... [5 related articles]
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15. quarantine
    
    • enforced isolation to prevent spread of disease
    • isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
    
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16. quarantine
    quarantine (kwor'untēn) , isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. The term originally referred to the 40 days of offshore wait during which incoming vessels could not discharge passengers or cargo in the era when pla...
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17. Quarantine
    The space of forty days, or a less quantity of time, during which the crew, or cargo, of a ship or vessel coming from a port or place infected or supposed to be infected with disease, are required to remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land. The object of the quarant...
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18. quarantine
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kwar′an-tēn Definitions: 1. A period (originally 40 days) of detention of vessels and their passengers coming from an area where an infectious disease prevails. 2. To detain such vessels and their passengers until the incubation period of an infectious disease ha...
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19. quarantine
    Any period for which people, animals, plants, or vessels may be detained in isolation to prevent the spread of contagious disease
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20. Quarantine
    Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
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21. Quarantine
    Cats may have to be kept in quarantine for six months on entry to the UK. If the cat has traveled to certain countries on the PETS scheme and all the conditions have been met, no quarantine will be necessary.
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22. Quarantine
    `Quarantine` is compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century Venetian) quarantena, meaning forty-day period. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals ...
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23. Quarantine
    (Greg Egan novel) `Quarantine` is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan. Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant), which Egan acknowledges...
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24. Quarantine
    (The Twilight Zone) `"Quarantine"` is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season (1985–1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Synopsis: A man awakens from an apparently long sleep. His caretaker, a young woman, wants him to confirm t...
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25. Quarantine
    (Jim Crace novel) `Quarantine` is a novel by Jim Crace. It was the winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the same year. Plot summary: Set in the Judean desert, 2000 years ago. It features 7 main characters: Editions:
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