different between curfew vs quarantine

English

Alternative forms

• cover-few (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman coeverfu and Old French cuevre-fu (French couvre-feu), from the imperative of covrir (“to cover”) + fu (“fire”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.fju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?.fju/

Noun

curfew (plural curfews)

1. Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "Hurricane Sandy," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. The time when such restriction begins.
3. A signal indicating this time.
4. A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
5. (historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
6. The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.95:

     I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie and Cover-few, which jangling doth even make the tower to shake […].

Derived terms

• curfew pass

Translations

See also

• lights-out
• lockdown
• martial law
• state of emergency
• state of siege

Further reading

• curfew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.ti?n/, /?kw??.?n.ta?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??.?n.tin/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?n.tin/

Etymology 1

From Middle English quarentine, from Medieval Latin quarent?na (“forty days”), from Latin quadr?gint? (“forty”).

Alternative forms

• quarantain, quarentene (obsolete)

Noun

quarantine (plural quarantines)

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port, from quaranta (“forty”), from Latin quadr?gint?.

Noun

quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural quarantines)

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. (computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a computer virus are stored.

Derived terms

• quarantine flag

Translations

Verb

quarantine (third-person singular simple present quarantines, present participle quarantining, simple past and past participle quarantined)

1. To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
2. To put in isolation as if by quarantine

Derived terms

• quarantinable
• quarantined
• quarantiner
• self-quarantine

Translations

Further reading

• quarantine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Italian

Noun

quarantine f

1. plural of quarantina