Isolate
['aɪsəleɪt] or ['aɪsəlɪt]
Definition
(verb.) place or set apart; 'They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates'.
(verb.) obtain in pure form; 'The chemist managed to isolate the compound'.
(verb.) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them.
Typist: Randall--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
(v. t.) To insulate. See Insulate.
(v. t.) To separate from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state.
Checker: Melanie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Separate, dissociate, detach, insulate, segregate, place by itself, set apart.
Edited by Johanna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Insulate, dissociate, separate
ANT:Unite, associate
Inputed by Bernard
Definition
v.t. to place in a detached situation like an island.—adj. Is′olable (chem.) capable of being separated from any other substance: capable of being obtained pure.—n. Isolā′tion.
Editor: Val
Examples
- Davy studied later the compounds of fluorine, and though un able to isolate the element, conjectured its likeness to chlorine. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Object lessons tended to isolate the mere sense-activity and make it an end in itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His occupation tended to isolate him, and isolated he was mostly seen to be. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To yield to this temptation means to narrow and isolate the thought of the self--to treat it as complete. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then they could get into no touch with the isolated little sculptor. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This desecration was not the act of some isolated fanatic; it was the official act of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But the perfect silence was most terrifying, isolating the soul, surrounding the heart with frozen air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typed by Agatha