英语词汇“quarantines”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

quarantines

释义

quarantine¹ /kworˈən-tēn/

noun

A time (orig for a ship forty days) of compulsory isolation or detention to prevent spread of contagion or infection
Isolation or detention for such a purpose
The place where the time is spent
Any period of enforced isolation
A period of forty days (obsolete law)

transitive verb

To subject to quarantine

ORIGIN: Ital quarantina, from quaranta forty, from L quadrāgintā

quarantine flag noun

A yellow flag displayed by a ship in quarantine, with a black spot if there is contagious disease on board

noun

A kind of early-ripening red apple

ORIGIN: Perh cf Fr quarantain, appar applied to quick-growing peas and maize

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