To separate, detach, or isolate.
To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.
Synonym of isolate more generally.
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.
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.
A period of 40 days, particularly
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.