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Separate vs Quarantine - What's the difference?

separate | quarantine |

As verbs the difference between separate and quarantine

is that separate is to divide (a thing) into separate parts while quarantine is to retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

As nouns the difference between separate and quarantine

is that separate is (usually|in the plural) anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing while quarantine is a desert in which christ fasted for 40 days according to the bible or quarantine can be a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed to be infected.

As an adjective separate

is apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).

separate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
  • This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
  • Not together (with); not united (to).
  • I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

    Verb

    (separat)
  • To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  • To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
  • * Dryden
  • From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
  • * Bible, Romans viii. 35
  • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
  • To cause (things or people) to be separate.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
  • To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
  • (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
  • * Bible, Acts xiii. 2
  • Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

    Derived terms

    * separable * separately * separation * separational * separationism * separationist

    Antonyms

    * annex * combine

    See also

    * disunite * disconnect * divide * split * reduce * subtract

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
  • Usage notes

    * The spelling is (separate). *(term) is a common misspelling.

    quarantine

    English

    Etymology 1

    Directly from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible
  • 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
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (wikipedia quarantine)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed to be infected.
  • Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
  • A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
  • A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they've been infected with a contagious disease.
  • (by extension) Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.
  • A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
  • (computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a virus are stored.
  • Verb

    (quarantin)
  • To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
  • To put in isolation as if by quarantine
  • Derived terms
    * quarantinable