limit vs quarantine

limit

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

noun
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

quarantine

verb
  • Synonym of restrict. 

  • 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 isolate more generally. 

noun
  • 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. 

How often have the words limit and quarantine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )