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Quarantine
- noun - enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
- isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
- place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
Quarreling
- verb - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Quartation
- - The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.
Quartering
- verb - a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
- divide by four; divide into quarters
- divide into quarters; "quarter an apple"
- dividing into four equal parts
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
Quassation
- - The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
Quaternion
- noun -
- a form of extended complex number in mathematics
Queen City
- noun - the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina
Queen-Size
- adjective - (used especially of beds) not as large as king-size; "a queen-sized bed"
Queer Bird
- noun - someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group