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Adjective
/ˈīsəˌlātid/,
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Far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote,
  1. Far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote
    • - isolated farms and villages
  2. Having minimal contact or little in common with others
    • - he lived a very isolated existence
  3. Single; exceptional
    • - they were isolated incidents
  1. not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
  2. detached: 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"
  3. disjunct: 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
  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. apart(p): 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"
  7. (Isolate (album)) Isolate is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Circus Maximus. The album was released on October 24, 2007 in Japan, August, 2007 in Europe and September 4, 2007 in the US.
  8. (Isolate (computation)) The Application Isolation API (JSR 121) provides a specification for isolating and controlling Java application life cycles within a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or between multiple JVMs. ...
  9. (Isolate (Gary Numan album)) Isolate - The Numa Years is a compilation album by Gary Numan. It was released in March 1992 on CD and cassette and contains tracks issued on his own Numa Records label during the years 1984-1986. ...
  10. (Isolate (monkey)) The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. ...
  11. (Isolate (puzzle)) Isolate is a logic-based line-placement puzzle. The puzzler is provided with a grid containing walls, dots and a set of area sizes. A solved grid will contain areas of the given sizes containing two dots each.
  12. Isolates is a term used by students and educators in Human Development Family Studies (HDFS) and by researchers, to describe members of a study group, usually child through young adult, who do not actively participate in cliques or friendship groups. ...
  13. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation; Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file; affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone
  14. (isolatedness) The state or condition of being isolated
  15. (isolate) Something that has been isolated; To set apart or cut off from others; To place in quarantine or isolation; To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture; To insulate, or make free of external influence; To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. ...
  16. (isolation) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; The act of isolating; The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries); The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a ...
  17. (Isolate) A strain of a fungus brought into pure culture (i.e. isolated) from a specific environment.
  18. (isolate) a particular strain of HIV-1 taken from a person.
  19. (Isolate) To raise with the intention of reaching a heads up between yourself and a single other player.
  20. (Isolate) Bet strongly in an attempt to make everyone fold except one other player.
  21. (Isolate) raising hoping to only have one more opponent.
  22. (ISOLATE) Microorganism found in an infectee and cultivated on tissue culture.
  23. (Isolate) (Said of a menace card) To isolate a menace in squeeze play is to arrange that only one opponent can guard one of declarer's threat suits. The play is conceptually similar to transferring a control.
  24. (Isolate) A dampening mechanism made a part of the assembly or system, which reduces structureborne vibrations from passing through the structure.
  25. (Isolate) A group in which mating is always between members of the group. For example, the Amish.