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# quarantine

noun (quarantine — uncountable; a quarantine, quarantines); verb (quarantine, quarantines, quarantined, quarantining)

«quarantine» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Quarantine is a time when a person or animal who may have a catching disease is kept away from others so the disease does not spread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#m1)
2. (verb) To quarantine someone or something is to keep them apart for this reason. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#m2)
3. In computing, to quarantine a file is to lock away a file that may have a virus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and health lessons, quarantine stops infections spreading, for example during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people stayed home. In everyday life in Australia and New Zealand, strict quarantine (biosecurity) at airports stops pests and diseases arriving on food, plants and animals; pets coming from abroad may need quarantine. In history, ships with sick sailors were kept in quarantine. Common phrases: «in quarantine», «go into quarantine», «quarantine period», «under quarantine».

### Examples

- The new puppy had to stay in quarantine for ten days. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x1)
- During the pandemic, our family went into quarantine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x2)
- Australian airports have strict quarantine rules for fruit and plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x3)
- The ship was kept in quarantine until no one was sick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x4)
- The antivirus program quarantined the dangerous file. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x5)
- Sick chickens were quarantined away from the flock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x6)
- The quarantine lasted two weeks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#x7)

### Note

Say KWOR-an-teen. It comes from Italian «quaranta giorni», «forty days», the time ships waited long ago. Not the same as «isolation»: isolation is for people who are definitely sick; quarantine is for people who might be.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «quarantine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«quarantine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/quarantine.html) on Mova free.