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isolate

[v. ahy-suh-leyt; n., adj. ahy-suh-lit, -leyt]

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verb (used with object)

to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.

Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine.

Chemistry, Bacteriology. to obtain (a substance or microorganism) in an uncombined or pure state.

Electricity. to insulate.

Television. to single out (a person, action, etc.) for a camera closeup.

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.

Also called language isolate. Linguistics. a language with no demonstrable genetic relationship, as Basque.

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something that has been isolated, as a by-product in a manufacturing process: an isolate of soy flour.

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adjective

11.

isolated; alone.

Origin:
1800–10; back formation from isolated

Related forms

i·so·la·tor, noun

re·i·so·late, verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.

un·i·so·late, verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.

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It would not affect the recipient's ability to isolate the secret strand.

As stated above, they administrators only have to isolate and punish one faculty member and the rest shut up.

Instrumental variables help to isolate causal relationships.

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It would not affect the recipient's ability to isolate the secret strand.

As stated above, they administrators only have to isolate and punish one faculty member and the rest shut up.

Instrumental variables help to isolate causal relationships.

The waters that lap their beaches isolate them from the pipelines and grids that deliver cheaper electricity on the mainland.

These are concentric rings of steel pipe and cement that isolate the near-surface aquifers from the inside of the wellbore.

We could try to isolate her, of course, and then she'd have her own food and water.

If the immune system can isolate and kill the viruses faster than they replicate themselves, then the infection is stopped.

The scientists did not isolate a virus from a fossil.

One step is to isolate a nation and demonize its leaders.

The new isolate may also encode a few novel gene products whose function is, as yet, unknown.

The dense early morning fog and dusk light isolate this beautiful oak tree creating a mysterious mood.

Had a smart grid been in place, it might have helped isolate the outage and prevent it from spreading.

Microbiology, because you must isolate the bacteria or virus.

And it was all but impossible to isolate one event from the other.

He also tracks our national compulsion to isolate criminals, discussing the history of reform.

In part this drive to isolate the country is deliberate.

Try to isolate an area on the leg that is in good condition and has two parallel seams.

But no one could figure out how to isolate the genes involved.

To isolate such regions, the data set is divided into what is known as an octree.

Time to isolate her in a prison cell where she can do no further harm and lay off the tenure system.

Debt is more dangerous and in its current securitised form much harder to isolate.

It is completely possible to live with them after being bitten after you isolate the problem and get it handled.

Chemists spent a century trying to isolate it, and several died in the attempt.

Basically, if you have a gene patent, it means you've managed to isolate a new gene from a microbe and it's yours to profit from.

Teachers would be trained how to isolate these kids and advance them as candidates for these grants.

One cannot isolate taxes as the only contributor/detractor to growth.

To find out, psychologists conducted a series of experiments to isolate nature from the equation.

If you can isolate yourself totally from the stream of yammering humanity, do it for the first draft.

They were able to isolate the pheromone the flower uses to drive the hornets wild.

We could isolate children from adults and each other, eliminating the risk of immoral acts entirely.

Float a large wooden disk on the water to isolate the gravitational force.

Combining the two instruments' data will help isolate the confounding effects of atmospheric dust.

The way to fix our systems is to isolate ourselves from those who don't play by the rules that make our system work.

As a defense, the child gradually loses interest in schoolwork and begins to isolate himself from social interaction.

But it is possible to isolate features of interest and examine how they evolve in computer simulations.

Scientists isolate and culture stem cells from placenta with characteristics of both embryonic and adult stem cells.

He spent the next decade growing the penicillium mold and trying to isolate the antibiotic it secreted.

But the temptation for many is to isolate the extremists, perhaps with an alliance of mainstream left and right.

Use the selection tool to isolate the parts of the image you want to blur.

Colten helped isolate a gene tied to respiratory failure in infants.

It became hard to isolate out of the visual overload anything in particular at all.

It hoped that a greater emphasis on premium products would isolate it from cyclical demand for bulk chemicals.

Because the test reads heartwaves, it is able to isolate whether there is heart arrythmia, an indicator of coronary disease.

Yet it seldom makes sense to isolate large parts of the world permanently, no matter how unpleasant the tyrants who govern them.

Or rescue workers might lower bags or containers to isolate the wastes within the shelter.

Shi took the tooth to his lab and found that he was indeed able to isolate such cells from the tooth pulp left in the crown.

The goal should be to isolate extremists from the communities in which they live.

The goal should be to isolate the extremists by adopting policies that build local partnerships.

One staph isolate was resistant to nine different antibiotics.

He was the first researcher to isolate a hormone produced by parathyroid glands that regulates blood calcium in adults.

Unions and the need to isolate the bureaucracy from political.

It can take a year or more to isolate blockbuster drugs from the lot.

The aliens isolate the city via a power barrier and begin slaughtering the inhabitants for food.

It lets you scan through a clip to see what's in it, isolate the good parts, and rapidly drop them into a sequence.

Investors' attempts to isolate alpha from beta have taken several forms.

But they controlled for worry and generalized anxiety in order to isolate specific anxiety about feeling anxious.

The next step will be to isolate the gene and determine precisely how it causes hearing loss.

The answer is to isolate the stem cells before the grinding.

When one gets sick, the agwonòm told me, they must isolate it before it contaminates others.

Each hair dryer will have sensors or plastic insulation that the user cannot see, but that will isolate the electrical.

Levashov insisted he had been able to stop the cancer telepathically and isolate it inside a membrane.

Until now, no one has been able to isolate or study the virus and there has been no accurate test to detect it.

Some may happily jump on the international system, or isolate themselves.

Why not try to isolate alien microbes by using a nutritional broth to wish is added a mixture of antibiotics.

He helped isolate one factor in agglutination, or clumping, of platelets in blood plasma.

Second, indictments will isolate criminal leaders from their supporters.

In a matter of months, researchers expect to isolate the precise gene that is defective in muscular dystrophy.

So far researchers have not been able to isolate or identify stem cells in these organisms.

Furusawa's lovely compositions use architectural lines to carve up screen space and isolate his players.

Besides, people who have no respect for others only isolate themseves in this way.

Yoga: the meditative breathing exercises that isolate and release tension and channel the flow of positive energy in the body.

The fastest way to replace a rival executive is to discredit and isolate him first.

Buckley succeeded in using tissue cultures to isolate and identify the virus.

People with severe depression isolate and can become overwhelmed by social.

Black holing the global network would be necessary to isolate non-compliant routers.

Also, some areas of study are easy to isolate than others.

Neither of those fuel sources pays to capture and isolate waste products from the environment.

Roads also fragment and isolate turtle habitats by establishing a barrier to migration and the movement of individuals.

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World English Dictionary

isolate

—vb
1.	to place apart; cause to be alone
2.	med to quarantine (a person or animal) having or suspected of having a contagious disease
3.	to obtain (a compound) in an uncombined form
4.	to obtain pure cultures of (bacteria, esp those causing a particular disease)
5.	electronics to prevent interaction between (circuits, components, etc); insulate

—n
6.	an isolated person or group

[C19: back formation from isolated, via Italian from Latin insulātus, literally: made into an island; see insulate]

'isolable

—*adj*

isola'bility

—n

'isolator

—n

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Word Origin & History

isolate

1807, a new formation from isolated (q.v.).

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Medical Dictionary

isolate i·so·late (ī'sə-lāt')
v. i·so·lat·ed, i·so·lat·ing, i·so·lates

To set apart or cut off from others.
To place in quarantine.
To separate a pure strain from a mixed bacterial or fungal culture.
To separate or remove a chemical substance out of a combined mixture.
To separate experiences or memories from the emotions relating to them.

n. (-lĭt, -lāt')
A bacterial or fungal strain that has been isolated.

i'so·la'tor n.

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