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Quarantine is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan . Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant), which Egan ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarantine \Quar`an*tine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quarantined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarantining .] To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES boarding/quarantine kennels ▪ The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The quarantine makes it illegal to transport honey bees out of the area. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier quarentyne (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see four ).\n \nSense of ...
Usage examples of quarantine.
They were reported to be aggressively engaged in guerilla warfare against the enemy in the provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi and north Kiangsu, although direct evidence was lacking because no foreigner accredited to Chungking was allowed to visit the area north of the quarantine line.
Lee as to where he could obtain the CDC trivalent botulin antitoxin, stocks of which were kept at or near regional airports and Public Health Service Quarantine Stations all over the U.
There were other friends and classmates, one of them a natural humorist of the liveliest sort, who would have been quarantined in any Puritan port, his laugh was so potently contagious.
The move to full quarantine status for Offshoot was being debated by the sector administration committee right now.
The Pandemic had already reached Luxor, and we just missed being caught in the quarantine.
British airports on suspicion of having had contact with a possible polio carrier at Zurich Airport, also an English girl, are still being held in quarantine.
The Ycl, while admirable in many ways, had regrettable appetites that would likely keep their world quarantined for quite some time.
And even before the last ship pulled out there were rumors coursing through streamspace that the AIs would defy the quarantine, that the Consortium had sent out sublight probes to reinitiate contact, that FreeNet, or at least part of it, would be opened to the worldmind.
On Earth, as required by the Nano Act, scans are still being run in quarantined cities.
That they are growing anxious there is evident from the stringency of the quarantine regulations they are passing.
He knew so little of quarantine regulations, however, that his dress was actually in contact with mine whilst he insisted upon the stringency of the orders which he had received.
The village of junked cars was especially odd, because farther on was a hillside of uninhabited housesprobably a quarantine order, or a subzone in the making.
The first few nights here, Jessie had awoken with nightmares, triggered by the quarantine and the strange environment.
Quarantine, Rau followed the supine form of his still-stunned superior off for whatever short-arm inspection Biocontrol demanded without a word.
The drone refers to the need for treatment, decontamination, and observation of a quarantine.