Quarantine vs. Segregation — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Quarantine and Segregation
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Definitions
Quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, yet do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis.
Segregation
The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
Quarantine
A condition, period of time, or place in which a person, animal, plant, vehicle, or amount of material suspected of carrying an infectious agent is kept in confinement or isolated in an effort to prevent disease from spreading.
Segregation
The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination.
Quarantine
An action resulting in such a condition
The government's quarantine of the animals.
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Segregation
(Genetics) The separation of paired alleles or homologous chromosomes, especially during meiosis, so that the members of each pair appear in different gametes.
Quarantine
An action to isolate another nation, such as a blockade of its ports or a severance of diplomatic or trade relations.
Segregation
The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
Quarantine
The condition of being isolated by such an action.
Segregation
(biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
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Quarantine
(Computers) The isolation of data or data transmissions in order to keep viruses, worms, or other malware from infecting a computer or computer network.
Segregation
(mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Quarantine
To isolate in quarantine.
Segregation
The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
Quarantine
A period of 40 days, particularly
Segregation
(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
Quarantine
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.
Segregation
(genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
Quarantine
(historical) 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.
Segregation
The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
Quarantine
(historical) 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.
Segregation
Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Quarantine
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 tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
Segregation
(genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
Quarantine
(figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
Segregation
A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
Quarantine
A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
Segregation
The act of segregating or sequestering;
Sequestration of the jury
Quarantine
A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
Quarantine
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..
Quarantine
The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
Quarantine
(transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
Quarantine
Synonym of isolatemore generally.
Quarantine
Synonym of restrict.
Quarantine
To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
Quarantine
(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
Quarantine
Alternative case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.
Quarantine
A space of forty days; - used of Lent.
Quarantine
Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
Quarantine
The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
Quarantine
To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
Quarantine
Enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
Quarantine
Isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
Quarantine
Place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons;
My dog was quarantined before he could live in England