comma vs quarantine

comma

noun
  • A brief interval. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

quarantine

noun
  • A period of 40 days, particularly 

  • A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight. 

  • An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.. 

  • A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another. 

  • The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned. 

  • The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated. 

  • A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation. 

  • A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease. 

  • The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations. 

  • A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret. 

verb
  • To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease. 

  • To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease. 

  • Synonym of restrict. 

  • Synonym of isolate more generally. 

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