quarantines

Meaning of quarantines

noun
  1. The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.
  2. A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance.
noun
  1. A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed or feared to be infected.
  2. Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
  3. A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
  4. A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.
  5. (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.
  6. A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
  7. A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a computer virus are stored.

Information about quarantines

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of quarantines is: quarantine.
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Hyphenation of quarantines

quar-an-tines

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • quarantines is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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