[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/quarantine.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / quarantine

[← Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/Q/)

# quarantine

«quarantine» in Mova's school dictionary: **a time when a person or animal who may have a catching…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quarantine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quarantine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.