单词 | quarantine |
释义 | Word Frequency quarantine(ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn) noun 1. a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease 2. the place or area where such detention is enforced 3. any period or state of enforced isolation verb (transitive) 4. to isolate in or as if in quarantine 5. Australian to withhold (a portion of a welfare payment) from a person or group of people Word origin C17: from Italian quarantina period of forty days, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadrāgintā |
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