Quarantine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A period of 40 days, particularly
2. isim The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.

   “Querentyne is where a man dyeth seisyd of a maner place and other landis where of the wyfe ought to be indowed, than the woman shall hold the maner place by .xl. days within which tyme her dower shalbe to her assyned.”

3. isim The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
4. isim A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.

   “Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.”

5. isim A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.

   “The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.”

6. isim A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.

   “Now treating Sandwich seems the fittest choice For Spain, there to condole and to rejoyce: He meets the French, but to avoid all harms, Slips into Groine, Embassies bears no Arms. There let him languish a long Quarrentine, And ne're to England come, till he be clean.”

7. isim A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.

   “They bring wood, millet, rye, barley, and a little wheat to the quarantine to barter with the Cossaks for salt.”

8. isim A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.

   “When a great power establishes diplomatic quarantine against them it is well not to go too far on a course on which they appear to be embarking with a light heart.”

9. isim An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.

   “Also included is Canary, a ‘quarantine’ program for use as a sample to test for a virus by pairing it with new or suspect programs.”

10. isim The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.

    “If they click on the link then they're added to your approved senders list and their message is moved to your inbox; if they don't, the message stays in quarantine.”

11. fiil To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.

    “Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.”

12. fiil To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.

    “International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.”

13. fiil To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.

    “It has just been announced that Norfolk, Va., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis.”

14. fiil Synonym of isolate more generally.

    “J.F.K. "quarantined" Cuba rather than blockading it to avoid needless escalation of the conflict.”

15. fiil Synonym of restrict.

    “Did any moral taint hang about me that quarantined my entrance into its circle?”

16. özel isim Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.

    “By yonde ys a wyldernys of quarentyne, Wher Cryst wyth fastyng hys body dyd pyne; In that holy place, as we rede, The deuyl wold had of stonys bred.”

17. özel isim Synonym of Mount of Temptation.

    “Than turned we vp in to Quarantene”