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verb
- 1. cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others: "a country that is isolated from the rest of the world"
- 2. identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately: "his difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant"
noun
- 1. a person or thing that has been or become isolated: "social isolates often become careless of their own welfare"
- 2. a culture of microorganisms isolated for study.
1. : to set apart from others. also : quarantine. 2. : to select from among others. especially : to separate from another substance so as to obtain pure or in a free state. 3. : insulate. isolator. ˈī-sə-ˌlā-tər. also ˈi- noun. isolate. 2 of 3. adjective. iso· late ˈī-sə-lət -ˌlāt.
noun. a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study. Psychology. a person, often shy or lacking in social skills, who avoids the company of others and has no friends within a group. Biology. an inbreeding population that is isolated from similar populations by physiological, behavioral, or geographic barriers.
ISOLATE definition: 1. to separate something from other things with which it is connected or mixed: 2. to keep a…. Learn more.
i·so·late (ī′sə-lāt′) tr.v. i·so·lat·ed, i·so·lat·ing, i·so·lates 1. a. To cause to be alone or apart, as in being inaccessible or unable to move about: The police isolated the area until more help could arrive. b. To place in quarantine. c. To cause to become socially or politically unengaged or ostracized: an immigrant who was ...
isolate: 1 v place or set apart “They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates” Synonyms: insulate Types: show 6 types... hide 6 types... segregate separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others ghettoise , ghettoize put in a ghetto cloister seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister ...
isolation: [noun] the action of isolating : the condition of being isolated.
Isolate definition: To identify or distinguish as a separate entity or group. According to its position in the periodic classification of the elements one would expect its atomic weight to be less than that of iodine, instead of approximately equal, and on this account many efforts have been made to isolate another element from tellurium compounds, but none have as yet been successful.
3 isolate something (from something) (technology) to separate a single substance, cell, etc. from others so that you can study it Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality. See isolate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
isolate somebody/yourself/something Patients with the disease should be isolated. Engineers isolated the gas supply to the house. isolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners. This decision will isolate the country from the rest of Europe. Topics Healthcare b2
isolate in American English. (verb ˈaisəˌleit, ˈɪsə-, noun & adjective ˈaisəlɪt, -ˌleit, ˈɪsə-) (verb -lated, -lating) transitive verb. 1. to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone. 2. Medicine. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine. 3.
