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Quarantine logo #10101) Action invoked against Cuba 2) Enforced isolation 3) English novel 4) First-person shooter 5) Forty days, literally 6) Germ-control isolation 7) Involuntary isolation 8) Isolate 9) Isolation 10) Period of enforced isolation 11) Quarantine facility 12) Sega Saturn game
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Quarantine logo #10101) Enisle 2) Isolate 3) Isolation 4) Seclude
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  1. enforced isolation to prevent spread of disease
  2. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

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quarantine logo #20105Legal 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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quarantine logo #22168isolating a diseased animal(s) from the rest of the flock.
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Quarantine logo #21002• (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 or prohibited vessels are stationed. • (v. t...
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quarantine logo #20148[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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quarantine logo #21003the 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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Quarantine logo #21442Cats 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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quarantine logo #21001(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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Quarantine logo #22399A restraint on importation of certain animals or plants from areas where pests or contagious disease
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Quarantine logo #10444All 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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Quarantine logo #20972Quar'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 . See Four , and confer Quadragesima...
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Quarantine logo #20972Quar`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 intercourse, when suspected of having contagious dis...
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Quarantine logo #20909Quarantine: 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 cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plagu...
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Quarantine logo #22167Physical isolation of diseased and exposed animals.
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quarantine logo #24151the isolation of an individual for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease
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Quarantine logo #23458The attempt to reduce the spread of disease by isolating an infected or new animal from the rest of the herd
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Quarantine logo #23721The isolation of a person or animal who is suspected of having a disease in order to prevent further spread of the disease.
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quarantine logo #20974 noun isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
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quarantine logo #21221Any period for which people, animals, plants, or vessels may be detained in isolation to prevent the spread of contagious disease
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Quarantine logo #21273Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
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Quarantine logo #23723The isolation of a person or animal who has a disease (or is suspected of having a disease) in order to prevent further spread of the disease.
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Quarantine   logo #23725Not the same as isolation and social distancing, quarantine is preventing healthy people who may have been exposed to contagious diseases from potentially spreading the disease.
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quarantine logo #23665[SAT terms] isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
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