| 单词 | quarantine |
| 释义 | quarantine —quarantinable, adj. —quarantiner, n. /kwawr"euhn teen', kwor"-, kwawr'euhn teen", kwor'-/, n. , v. , quarantined, quarantining. n. 1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. 2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease. 3. a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease. 4. the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures. 5. a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained. 6. the detention or isolation enforced. 7. the place, esp. a hospital, where people are detained. 8. a period of 40 days. 9. social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state. v.t. 10. to put in or subject to quarantine. 11. to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons. [1600-10; < It quarantina, var. of QUARANTENA, orig. Upper It (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, deriv. of quaranta forty << L quadraginta] |
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