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Definition of quarantine:

  • (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
  • (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
  • (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons;

Sentence Examples:

Ours is the first steamer that has reached the island since the removal of the quarantine; we went on shore directly after breakfast.

His "case" was so light that the main problem attached to it was that of providing occupation for the child during the six weeks of quarantine in one room.

I confess I am still somewhat in the same predicament myself, although I have already been twenty-four hours in Quarantine.

In half an hour after our arrival, several large boats came alongside, and we were told to get our baggage in order and embark for Quarantine.

At the end of the bridge, we were met by one of the Quarantine officers, who preceded us, taking care that we touched nobody in the streets, to the Quarantine building.

This land quarantine, between Syria and Asia Minor, when the former country is free from any epidemic, seems a most absurd thing.

She herself became a nurse to them both, and passed the next two months quarantined within her own walls.

As soon as any serious disease is discovered in foreign countries the Secretary of Agriculture puts in force a quarantine against that country.

If the sails of any other vessel touch those of one in quarantine, she too must undergo several days' probation.

This ship was in quarantine, and it was consequently necessary to take some precautions in going on board.

It is necessary for each quarantined person to submit to this and also to a bath, which is a real luxury, and after it comes a cup of tea and a light lunch.

I had expected to find neither comfort nor pleasure in the quarantine-house, and unfortunately I had judged but too well.

The quarantine doctor examined us in a very superficial manner, and pronounced that we should be free to-morrow.

Quarantine laws, for example, may be considered as affecting commerce; yet they are, in their nature, health laws.

Say, you'd want to quarantine the dictionary if you found smallpox in it, that's how hard you are to scare.

Quarantine was unnecessary, as within a few days half the cattle were sick, and it was all we could do to move away from the stench of the dead ones.

The cholera and the quarantine together induce a good many people to come this way, and though few remain as long as ourselves, the constant arrivals serve to keep attention alive.

This he did, and the Lady Nelson entered, and anchored off what is now the quarantine station on February 15th.

Restraint, prohibition, quarantine, anything may be resorted to, to arrest the farther advance of the disease.

There is also a temporary fort at some distance from the hospital, containing a garrison of soldiers, who are there to enforce the quarantine rules.

Some were already at their stations and in their schools, and some were on the way, subject to the trials of quarantine.

He listened in entire disapproval while she told him of the place below quarantine where they were to board the submarine.

It was therefore a relief when neighbors no longer considered the house in quarantine, and when the chances of seeing Rosamond alone were very much reduced.

"And if that's so," Helen said, almost in tears, "poor Ruth will be quarantined for weeks."

Simmons had in several ways laid himself liable to criminal prosecution, especially in the matter of the quarantine.

He had been quarantined in this cabin when it was declared that he had this disease and the doctor sent for.

Health officers have recognized this in continuing the quarantine against the disease until the organism disappears.

A case of contagion has been discovered in one of the wards, and it has been considered necessary to quarantine the hospital.

And there is the hospital quarantine, which is the real thing, because hospitals are expected to do things thoroughly.

Twenty-two made three brief excursions back along the corridor that first day of the quarantine.

Before the quarantine women with new babies had gone out, without an idea of where to spend the night.

By the yellow flag he knew that it carried the quarantine officials, inspectors, and a few privileged citizens.

From the weakness of that gallant man, it results that his wife is condemned in society to perpetual quarantine.

He bet five hundred even that one of us, at least, would break quarantine within the next twenty-four hours, and, of course, that settled it.

By the way, after the quarantine and with the policeman locked in the furnace room, a pearl necklace and a diamond bracelet were stolen!

The two most unexpected events of the whole quarantine occurred that night at the same time, one on the roof and one in the cellar.

She went back to school, after the quarantine was lifted and the familiar routine there helped her.

Sandy Hook Light was now in sight, and long before the sun began his journey across the heavens, the steamer lay at anchor at quarantine, waiting for a certificate from the health officer.

A contagious fever having recently made dreadful havoc at Gibraltar, where the ships touched, his lordship became subject to the quarantine regulations.

Not wishing to bring the poor fellow into trouble, I gave up the project, and returned to the quarantine.

Now this ship had long served as a sailors' hospital, and it had been sent back to sea without the necessary quarantine.

However, the family were obliged to begin their quarantine anew, on the report of the visitor or examiner, though their former quarantine wanted but a few days of being finished.

Don't you suppose that all the details of the sinking of the Roland have been telegraphed to New York from quarantine?

During those weeks I was cut off from the comfort of her presence, for even when she was no longer needed she was in quarantine lest she should have taken the infection.

It's a nuisance to be in quarantine, but it will be beautiful out in the country just now, and we'll manage to enjoy ourselves.

Except for the trifling trouble of vaccination, the effects of which in most cases were soon over, the quarantine party enjoyed radiant health.

Now the strict law of the Camp confined the girls to the pasture, but as it was the last week of the quarantine, they were beginning to grow a little slack about rules.

It should have power to pass or revise all new tariff, quarantine, alien exclusion, or the like legislation affecting international relations.

Remind them that if they do not cooperate in medical inspection that I can put your planet under quarantine and your space commerce will be cut off like that!

We were forced to walk on this occasion, as to have touched a saddle or animal would have exposed us to the penalties of quarantine.

It provides for temporary quarantine, and for the education of the patient in his responsibility to the community when he is discharged.

All I know is that this ship is under quarantine until it's officially released, and from what I hear, it's not going to be released for quite some time.

It was reported to me that in time of an epidemic it is permitted to kill anyone who dares to break the quarantine.

Two topics seem at present to occupy the minds of everybody here; one, the successful laying of the cable, the other the burning of the quarantine buildings on Staten Island.

From May to August the men and Dick picked, trimmed, packed lettuce; but during most of that time the barn-apartment was in quarantine.

The vessel touched at Malta, thus giving opportunity, so far as the quarantines of those times would allow, for personal intercourse with the Rev.

No such stories are told about the white settlements on this continent, even before the days of quarantine and scientific medicine.

At a very early hour on Saturday morning, April 6, we were off Fire Island, and sunrise found us opposite quarantine.

The day was spent in hunting up former acquaintances, getting the lay of the land, and feeling the public pulse on the matter of quarantine on Southern cattle.

The remainder of us at headquarters were under orders to bring all the arms and ammunition, and join the quarantine forces at the meeting-place some five miles from our camp.

The foreman detailed three men to look after the herd, and the balance made hasty preparations to accompany the quarantine guards.

I assure you that it was purely an oversight on my part that I did not send you word in advance that these herds of mine are government cattle and not subject to local quarantine.

We had contributed one hundred dollars to the general quarantine fund, and had otherwise made ourselves popular with all classes in the brief time at our command.

And drink hearty, lads, for to-morrow we may be drinking branch water in a quarantine camp.

The quarantine captain looked upon that element as a valuable ally, suggesting that if it was a question of money, our side ought to be in the market for their services.

The last hope of interference was gone, and the rigors of quarantine closed in like a siege with every gun of the enemy spiked.

He was cautious in his remarks, but clearly intimated that had there been no other cattle in competition for delivery on this award, there might have been no quarantine.

If you had reason to believe that there was a case of plague on board, for instance, the yacht would be quarantined.

"You will drive into the quarantine pasture, where your stock will be inspected in the morning."

On reaching harbor the health officials came on board, and to my surprise selected me alone among the passengers for quarantine.

The regular routine of fatigue duty and drill formations took place during the quarantine periods, the restrictions being placed on the men leaving the battery area between drill hours.

"You've been working to get a quarantine law passed, I remember," Morgan said, feeling this outrage as if the cattle were his own.

Isolation and quarantine should continue for two weeks, and in bad cases three weeks, after the membrane has disappeared from the throat.

At last our quarantine was concluded, the pirates were carried off to prison, and we returned on board our ship, which had come in from a cruise just in time to receive us.

Intently the boys watched her as she slowed at quarantine and the port physicians boarded her.

The survival of the fittest held out to us two weapons of strange and curious make, one of them labeled "immunity," the other "quarantine."

Whoever goes, of course, will be under quarantine, as the guard has orders to let no one enter or leave the house.

She got away only because she made port just fifty-two minutes before the eruption, an' had been ordered to the quarantine station, some distance off.

For a long time, the people of the country put him into a quarantine, as they still suspected him.

Late one cloudy afternoon she rounds Sandy Hook, and after a day's quarantine, finds a dock.

"She may not be seriously ill, and if they once get hold of her they'll keep her in quarantine for weeks after she's all over it."

The memory of those desolate weeks of quarantine when my little daughter suffered all the agonies of death, still lingered over its walls, a poisonous shadow which time alone could remove.

At once appeared the silvery quarantine dome, and the first step of our adjustment was completed.

A traveler on arrival has his pet dog taken from him and the poor animal is thrust into quarantine for six months.

The yellow badge of suspicion once upon him, all men kept afar, as if he were a fever-ship in quarantine.

For those five days I was busied in close attention to the patients and in strenuous though not altogether availing efforts to maintain a quarantine of the cabin in which they lay.

This peril safely passed, there was a long delay for quarantine before they were at last allowed on shore.

We want to help them, but we simply must hold the line on this quarantine until we solve the medical problem.

Not only a police boat, but an outward-bound man-of-war and an incoming revenue cutter escorted the ship to quarantine, where the tow-line was cast off, and an anchor dropped.

He suggested our raising the yellow plague flag; and this we did, with a ready response from the quarantine officer.

The quarantine officer came out in a power-boat, and mounted the ladder; and from that moment my command of the Ella ceased.

At the end of that time the quarantine officer came up and shouted a direction from below, as a result of which the jolly-boat was cut loose, and, towed by the tug, taken to the quarantine station.

His quarantine had been as strict as his later measures were energetic, and he had refused to rest until he was assured that no danger could come from his patient.

A little inside the Heads, we are boarded by the quarantine officer, who inquires as to the health of the ship, which is satisfactory, and we proceed up the bay.

The suspected cholera case proving doubtful, we were put out of quarantine next morning, and moved across the river to the site of the hospital which we were to take over.

Two or three army transports, with the quarantine flag flying (for the cholera was still in evidence), lay quietly at anchor in the bay.

The ships lay wearily at quarantine out in the bay, and the chorus of bells striking the hour at night was heard over the quiet waters.

The difficulty in establishing a quarantine on the shipment of nursery stock is the apparent impossibility of saying that that is going to stop the spread of the disease.

It is very easy for us to stand up here and write papers and articles criticizing the quarantine board and the Department of Agriculture.

There wasn't a trail to follow or horses to gentle; his very dog had had to be left behind because of the ridiculous restrictions of canine quarantine.