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Isolate

//ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    isolated. literary, not-comparable

    "He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood."

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that has been isolated.

    "We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates."

Verb
  1. 1
    To set apart or cut off from others. transitive

    "By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items."

  2. 2
    place or set apart wordnet
  3. 3
    To place in quarantine or isolation. transitive
  4. 4
    set apart from others wordnet
  5. 5
    To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture. transitive

    "To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline."

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  1. 6
    obtain in pure form wordnet
  2. 7
    To insulate, or make free of external influence. transitive

    "One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination."

  3. 8
    separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them wordnet
  4. 9
    To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture. transitive
  5. 10
    To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity. transitive
  6. 11
    To self-isolate. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

Etymology 2

Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

Etymology 3

Back-formation from isolated, from French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

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