<B>quarantinable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>subject or liable to quarantine. <DD><B> 2. </B>requiring or giving grounds for quarantine. <DD><B> 3. </B>that quarantine can prevent from spreading. <BR> <I>Ex. A drug company official notes flu isn't a quarantinable disease (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>quarantine, </B>verb, <B>-tined,</B> <B>-tining,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to keep (a person, animal, plant, or ship) away from others for a time to prevent the spread of a contagious disease. <BR> <I>Ex. My brother was quarantined for three weeks when he had scarlet fever.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to isolate or exclude for any reason. <BR> <I>Ex. to quarantine a belligerent nation.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the condition of being quarantined. <BR> <I>Ex. The house was in quarantine for three weeks when the child had scarlet fever.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>detention, isolation, and other measures taken to prevent the spread of a contagious disease. <DD><B> 3. </B>a place where, or time for which, people, animals, plants, or ships are held until it is sure that they have no contagious diseases, insect pests, etc. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) isolation, exclusion, and similar measures taken against an undesirable person or group. <BR> <I>Ex. Nothing we know of at present justifies departure from the well-tried policy of vigilance and quarantine eschewing alarmism (Jewish Chronicle).</I> </DL>
<B>quark, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nuclear Physics.) one of a hypothetical group of particles, each with a charge less than that of the electron, regarded as possible constituents of all strongly reacting elementary particles. The existence and properties of quarks were predicted by the eightfold way. </DL>
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<B>quark matter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Nuclear Physics.) a hypothetical form of matter consisting entirely of three quarks. <BR> <I>Ex. The time when the formless particles turned into quark matter ... was an amazingly short time--less than one-billionth of one-trillionth of one-trillionth of one second--after the big bang (Robert H. March).</I> </DL>
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<B>quarkonium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Nuclear Physics.) a hypothetical particle consisting of a quark and its antiparticle. <BR> <I>Ex. This quarkonium structure (a particular kind of quark bound to its antiquark) is also represented in the psi particles, which are held to be a charm quark plus its antiquark (Science News).</I> </DL>
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<B>quarrel</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>-reled,</B> <B>-reling</B> or (especially British) <B>-relled,</B> <B>-relling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an angry dispute or disagreement; fight with words; breaking off of friendly relations. <BR> <I>Ex. They have had a quarrel and don't speak to each other. Love quarrels are easily made up, but of money quarrels there is no end (Maria Edgeworth).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a cause for a dispute or disagreement; reason for breaking off friendly relations. <BR> <I>Ex. A bully likes to pick quarrels. An honest man has no quarrel with the laws.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>one's cause or side in a dispute or contest. <BR> <I>Ex. The knight took up the poor man's quarrel and fought his oppressor.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to fight with words; dispute or disagree angrily; break off friendly relations; stop being friends. <BR> <I>Ex. The two friends quarreled and now they don't speak to each other. The sisters quarrelled among themselves as all sisters will (Winston Churchill).</I> (SYN) bicker, wrangle, squabble. <DD><B> 2. </B>to find fault; complain. <BR> <I>Ex. It is useless to quarrel with fate because one does not have control over it.</I> </DL>
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<B>quarrel</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a bolt or arrow with a square head, used with a crossbow. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small, square or diamond-shaped pane of glass, used in latticed windows. <DD><B> 3. </B>a stonemason's chisel. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=quarry</B> (3). </DL>
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<B>quarreler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who quarrels. </DL>
<B>quarrelsome, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> too ready to quarrel; fond of fighting and disputing. <BR> <I>Ex. A quarrelsome child has few friends. On our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc., and in continual ill humor (Benjamin Franklin).</I> (SYN) choleric, irascible, disputatious. adv. <B>quarrelsomely.</B> noun <B>quarrelsomeness.</B> </DL>
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<B>quarrier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a worker who quarries stone. </DL>
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<B>quarry</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>-ries,</B> verb, <B>-ried,</B> <B>-rying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a place where stone is dug, cut, or blasted out for use in building. <BR> <I>Ex. an ancient quarry from which the stone has been cut out in smooth masses (Amelia B. Edwards).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a source of plentiful supply; mine. <BR> <I>Ex. Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations (Sir George Mackenzie).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to obtain from a quarry. <BR> <I>Ex. We watched the workmen quarry out a huge block of marble.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to dig out by hard work. <BR> <I>Ex. This is the story of Sandburg's boyhood quarried with deftness and tact out of the rich profusion of "Always the Young Strangers" (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make a quarry in. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to dig in a quarry. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) He deliberately left buried [some stories] in the files of these magazines because he quarried from them later for his novels (Norman Shrapnel).</I> </DL>
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<B>quarry</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an animal chased in a hunt; game; prey. <BR> <I>Ex. a falcon swooping on its quarry (Herbert Spencer). The foxhunters chased their quarry for hours.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) anything hunted or eagerly pursued. <BR> <I>Ex. Hunter and quarry under the same roof, all unbeknownst to one another (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>quarry</B> (3), noun, pl. <B>-ries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small, square or diamond-shaped pane of glass, used in latticed windows; quarrel. <BR> <I>Ex. This window was filled with old painted glass in ... quarries (Margaret O. W. Oliphant).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a tile or stone that is square or diamond-shaped. <BR> <I>Ex. What ground remains ... is flagged with large quarries of white marble (Sir Richard Steele).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> square or diamond-shaped. <BR> <I>Ex. quarry tile.</I> </DL>
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<B>quarry-faced, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of building stone) rough-faced, as taken from the quarry. <DD><B> 2. </B>built of such stone, as masonry. </DL>
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<B>quarrying, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work or business of taking large solid blocks or broken masses of limestone, marble, slate, or the like, from the earth and preparing them for building. </DL>
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<B>quarryman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works in a quarry. </DL>
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<B>quarry sap,</B> <B>=quarry water.</B></DL>
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<B>quarry water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the moisture contained in newly quarried stone. </DL>
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<B>quart</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a measure for liquids, equal to 1/4 of a gallon; 32 fluid ounces or 0.9463 liter; in Britain and Canada, 40 fluid ounces or 1.1364 liters. (Abbr:) qt. <DD><B> 2. </B>a measure for dry things, equal to 1/8 of a peck; 67.2 cubic inches or 1.1012 liters; in Britain and Canada, 69.35 cubic inches or 1.1364 liters. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a container holding a quart. <DD><B> b. </B>the contents of such a container. <BR> <I>Ex. a quart of milk.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Music.) the interval of a fourth. </DL>
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<B>quart</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a sequence of four cards in a suit. <BR> <I>Ex. Quart major means the sequence of the four highest cards of a suit.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Fencing.) the fourth in a series of eight parries; carte. </DL>
<B>quartal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) of or having to do with a quart. <BR> <I>Ex. Quartal harmony is built in fourths, and clusters are built in seconds (G. Fletcher).</I> </DL>
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<B>quartan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> recurring every fourth day, by inclusive counting. <DD><I>noun </I> a fever with two days between attacks. </DL>
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<B>quartan malaria,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mild, persistent form of malaria in which the attacks occur every 72 hours. </DL>
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<B>quarte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Fencing.) the fourth in a series of eight parries; carte. </DL>
