QUARANTINE


Meaning of QUARANTINE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

boarding/quarantine kennels

The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The quarantine makes it illegal to transport honey bees out of the area.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But I don't know how long the quarantine period is.

Simpson said a monkey from the other quarantine room also showed signs of the virus, but a second test was negative.

Subjects who normally smoked or drank were allowed to continue doing so throughout their quarantine .

The issue was resolved by an act of quarantine .

There was no quarantine area, so Evelyn simply remained in the female Barracks during the day.

Two weeks later, 44 of the 50 monkeys in one quarantine room were dead.

With the statewide quarantine , up to 180, 000 acres of wheat crop will be affected, Schlittenhart estimated.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Also wild fish can carry diseases and should be quarantined before you introduce them into your community tank.

Animals brought into the country are automatically quarantined.

But the scientists also will consider whether additional wheat fields should be quarantined and destroyed to contain the spores.

Each hospital that took patients with contagious diseases established quarantine periods.

In Arizona, less than 10 percent of wheat fields are quarantined.

It can also be used to quarantine fish, used for breeding, rearing young or whatever.

The conditions attached to Navy participation in survey visits to quarantine planets were always the same.

The workers were not quarantined, but their temperatures were taken each day.

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