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adjective Linguistics.
pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order. Compare agglutinative (def. 2), inflectional (def. 2).
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Isolating
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i·so·late
[v. ahy-suh-leyt; n., adj. ahy-suh-lit, -leyt] verb, i·so·lat·ed, i·so·lat·ing, noun, adjective verb (used with object)
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.
noun
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.
adjective
11.
isolated; alone.
Related forms
i·so·la·tor, noun
re·i·so·late, verb (used with object), re·i·so·lat·ed, re·i·so·lat·ing.
un·i·so·late, verb (used with object), un·i·so·lat·ed, un·i·so·lat·ing.
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