isolate — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To set apart or cut off from others.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Synonyme

   island

   Beispiele

   By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.

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   Iran could not be happier. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel’s colonialism rather than Iran’s nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.

2. To place in quarantine or isolation.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Synonyme

   quarantine

3. To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.

4. To insulate, or make free of external influence.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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   One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

5. To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

6. To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

7. To self-isolate.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Synonyme

   self-quarantine

Substantiv

1. Something that has been isolated.

   Beispiele

   We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates.

Adjektiv

1. isolated.

   Gebrauch

   • literarisch
   • not-comparable

   Verwandte Wörter

   insulantinsularinsularityinsulateinsulationinsulator

   Beispiele

   He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.

   Its snaky acid kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

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   Narrow Yung-ch'ung streets quiet, / temple gardens all isolate mystery, / no one visits.

Verb

1. place or set apart

   Synonyme

   insulate

   Oberbegriffe

   discriminateseparatesingle out

   Beispiele

   They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates

2. obtain in pure form

   Oberbegriffe

   getacquire

   Beispiele

   The chemist managed to isolate the compound

3. set apart from others

   Synonyme

   sequestersequestratekeep apartset apart

   Oberbegriffe

   separatedisunitedividepart

   Beispiele

   The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on

4. separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

   Oberbegriffe

   classifyclasssortassortsort outseparate