isolate
//ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- isolate
- past (v2)
- isolated
- past participle (v3)
- isolated
- present participle
- isolating
- 3rd person singular
- isolates
- Plural
- isolates
Definitions
1.To set apart or cut off from others.
- By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.
2.To place in quarantine or isolation.
3.To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- 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.
4.To insulate, or make free of external influence.
- 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.
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.
1.isolated.
- Narrow Yung-ch'ung streets quiet, / temple gardens all isolate mystery, / no one visits.
- He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4263
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Back-formation from isolated
From French isolé
From Italian isolato
From Latin īnsulatus (whence also insulate), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).