in quarantine
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- idiom
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- I like that today we're talking about how we're doing in quarantine, special businesses that we might start.
- put in quarantine
- spend time in quarantine
- now in quarantine
Like we all have celebrated birthdays in quarantine so far.
- Like we all have celebrated birthdays in quarantine so far.
- I I, I'm so fascinated right now because we've been in quarantine for eight months.
- I think we fight more while we're in quarantine.
- We got a message from Anna and she wanted us to do a shoot about our life in quarantine.
- Well, at the time we were all in quarantine when Judd was writing the movie.
- Where you are psyched that you're in quarantine with your family, where you are psyched that you get to do what you do every single day.
- I hope so, but this is the worst purchase I made in quarantine, hands down.
Examples
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Since December, the family has lived in quarantine to help protect against bacteria and infection.
Blog text (34) -
He'll remain in quarantine for another week to ensure he is no longer infectious.
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You have been in quarantine for four months.
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This is me in quarantine trying to get a six pack.
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And then like, you know, it was pretty bad to be in quarantine in general.
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We have been in quarantine.
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After six months in quarantine, their dog was allowed to join them.
Fiction book (1991) -
We kept him in quarantine for three months.
Blog text (31) -
We're here in quarantine with the other survivors.
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And So what I want to know is how is being in quarantine impacting your ability to focus?
Synonyms
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Kept apart from others to stop a disease from spreading
Kept apart from others to stop an illness spreading
How Isolated
Surface Forms
Morphology
in + quarantine
The phrase 'in quarantine' combines the preposition 'in' (inside a state) with 'quarantine' (enforced isolation), so a learner who knows both words can infer it means being placed in isolation. Although the computing sense (isolating files/emails to stop malware) is a domain extension, this is a straightforward metaphorical transfer found across languages, so the general meaning is transparently derivable.
Etymology
In quarantine comes from old health rules when ships with sick people had to wait for forty days before anyone could go ashore. So being in quarantine came to mean 'kept apart to stop the spread of disease'.