Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quarantine flag

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English

Syllables: quar-an-tine flag
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals, but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.

Inflected Forms

quarantine flags (plural)

Questions

What does quarantine flag mean?: A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals, but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.

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