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Language Translation for : isolated
| Spanish: | aislado, | German: | alleinstehend, | Japanese: | 孤立した |
i⋅so⋅late
[v. ahy-suh-leyt; n., adj. ahy-suh-lit, -leyt]
verb, -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing, noun, adjective
–verb (used with object)
–noun
–adjective
| 1. | to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone. |
| 2. | Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine. |
| 3. | Chemistry, Bacteriology. to obtain (a substance or microorganism) in an uncombined or pure state. |
| 4. | Electricity. to insulate. |
| 5. | Television. to single out (a person, action, etc.) for a camera closeup. |
| 6. | a person, thing, or group that is set apart or isolated, as for purposes of study. |
| 7. | Psychology. a person, often shy or lacking in social skills, who avoids the company of others and has no friends within a group. |
| 8. | Biology. an inbreeding population that is isolated from similar populations by physiological, behavioral, or geographic barriers. |
| 9. | Also called language isolate. Linguistics. a language with no demonstrable genetic relationship, as Basque. |
| 10. | something that has been isolated, as a by-product in a manufacturing process: an isolate of soy flour. |
| 11. | isolated; alone. |
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| i·so·late
(ī'sə-lāt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. i·so·lat·ed, i·so·lat·ing, i·so·lates
Solitary; alone. n. (-lĭt, -lāt')
[Back-formation from isolated.] i'so·la'tor n. Synonyms: These verbs mean to separate from others: a mountain that isolated the village from larger towns; insulated herself from the chaos surrounding her; a celebrity who was secluded from public scrutiny; segregated the infectious patients in a special ward; sequestering a jury during its deliberations. |
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| i·so·lat·ed
(ī'sə-lā'tĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj. Separated from others; solitary or singular: Reporters in the field observed isolated instances of rebellion. [From French isolé, from Italian isolato, from Latin īnsulātus, made into an island, from īnsula, island.] |
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| isolated | |
adjective | |
| 1. | not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" |
| 2. | being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: detached] |
| 3. | marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly [syn: disjunct] |
| 4. | cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" |
| 5. | under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients" |
| 6. | remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart] |
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Isolated
I"so*la`ted\, a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.Copyright © 2008, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
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