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Verb
/ˈīsəˌlāt/,
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isolates, 3rd person singular present; isolated, past tense; isolated, past participle; isolating, present participle;
  1. Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others
    • - a country that is isolated from the rest of the world
  2. Identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately
    • - you can't isolate stress from the management context
  3. Obtain or extract (a compound, microorganism, etc.) in a pure form

  4. Cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, esp. a part of a supply network)

  5. Place (a person or animal) in quarantine as a precaution against infectious or contagious disease

Noun
  1. A person or thing that has been or become isolated
    • - social isolates often become careless of their own welfare
  2. A culture of microorganisms isolated for study

  1. place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
  2. obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
  3. sequester: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
  4. separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
  5. (isolated) not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
  6. (isolated) 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"
  7. 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. 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 - 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. 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 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. 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. ...
  14. (isolated) 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
  15. (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 ...
  16. (Isolated) (as applied to location) = Not readily accessible to persons unless special means for access are used.
  17. (Isolated) showers separated during a given period of time
  18. (ISOLATED) Scope of a deficiency is isolated when one or a very limited number of residents are affected and/or one or a very limited number of staff are involved, and/or the situation has occurred only occasionally or in a very limited number of locations.
  19. (Isolated) An abnormality that occurs in the absence of other systemic involvement
  20. (Isolated) Difficult to reach. Far from other places.
  21. (Isolated) If you delete master records, associated detail records are not deleted from the database.
  22. (Isolated) Present in small disjointed patches within an ecological region.
  23. (Isolated) and grown in pure culture
  24. (Isolated) not attached to, or in close proximity to, any rock other than its base.
  25. (isolated) (2h)[I], POs towards, FOs up. DH touches nose (some people omit this part), then touches little finger side to little finger side of NDH.