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Name:	contaminent
Birthdate:	1980-01-01
Location:	London, United Kingdom

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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
quar·an·tine / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-]
Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -tined, -tin·ing.
–noun
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.
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verb (used with object)
10. to put in or subject to quarantine.
11. to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.

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[Origin: 1600–10; < It quarantina, var. of quarantena, orig. Upper It (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, deriv. of quaranta forty ≪ L quadrāgintā]

—Related forms
quar·an·tin·a·ble, adjective
quar·an·tin·er, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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