"curtain off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curtains off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtaining off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtained off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtained off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "curtain off (third-person singular simple present curtains off, present participle curtaining off, simple past and past participle curtained off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time",
          "text": "The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, J. M. Coetzee, chapter III, in Foe, Penguin, published 1987, page 113",
          "text": "For furniture there was a table and chair, and a bed, slovenly made; one corner of the room was curtained off.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier."
      ],
      "id": "en-curtain_off-en-verb-RILl3Yp8",
      "links": [
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ],
        [
          "isolate",
          "isolate"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "curtain",
          "curtain"
        ],
        [
          "barrier",
          "barrier"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312",
          "text": "I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To isolate."
      ],
      "id": "en-curtain_off-en-verb-h6zyjQ~L",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To isolate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "curtain off"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curtains off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtaining off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtained off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "curtained off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "curtain off (third-person singular simple present curtains off, present participle curtaining off, simple past and past participle curtained off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time",
          "text": "The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, J. M. Coetzee, chapter III, in Foe, Penguin, published 1987, page 113",
          "text": "For furniture there was a table and chair, and a bed, slovenly made; one corner of the room was curtained off.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ],
        [
          "isolate",
          "isolate"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "curtain",
          "curtain"
        ],
        [
          "barrier",
          "barrier"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312",
          "text": "I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To isolate."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To isolate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "curtain off"
}